Those Black officers in supervisory ranks and pay grades who stay in south bureau (even though you live in the valley or OC) for the sole intent of getting retribution toward subordinate caucasians officers for the pain and hostile work environment their elders inflicted on you as probationers (...
The vast majority of that increase took place between 2005 and 2013, when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Garcetti, then the council’s president, embarked on an expensive mission toexpand the LAPD’s ranks. When Villaraigosa took office in 2005, crime was a front-burner issue. L.A. ex...
Requirements and duty descriptions for higher ranks can be found in job bulletins published by the Personnel Department. POLICE OFFICER I (+) POLICE OFFICER II (+) POLICE OFFICER III (+) SERGEANT I (+) SERGEANT II (+) DETECTIVE I (+) DETECTIVE II (+) DETECTIVE III (+) LIE...
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 p...