The LAPD has faced other stretches of diminished staffing. The Watts uprising of 1965 sparked a hiring spree, but then in the late 1970s, after the passage of tax-slashing Proposition 13 squeezed city coffers, the department’s sworn ranks shrank by hundreds of officers. In the years that ...
Promotion from Police Officer may be either to Police Detective or to Police Sergeant. A promotion may also be accomplished between Detective and Sergeant. Promotion from Sergeant or Detective is to Police Lieutenant; from there on, there is only one promotional ladder. Successive rungs of the...
Although some of the five finalists were reportedly left angered by the Police Commission’s decision to go with an outsider, there were some indications that even within the LAPD’s upper ranks, Williams may find some open minds. One executive with the department’s influential 8,100-member ...
We also know that long before the Jump Out Boys, a rogue gang of cops recently exposed for shooting Black and Latinos leading to seven members fired the same day Dorner posted his manifesto, that Southern Cali police departments within their ranks had long had social clubs/ gangs many of the...
ranks usually became brilliant leaders. A black man could work motorcycle patrol, command the elite Metropolitan Division and rise to deputy chief, but he had to be kind of white to get there. After he retired, he could be as black as he wanted to be and become mayor or police ...