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Groups Push LAPD Reform Effort
Saying changes have been inadequate, civil rights organizations ask a judge to extend a mandate requiring oversight of the LAPD.
A coalition of civil rights groups asked a federal judge Monday to extend the consent decree mandating reform of the Los Angeles Police Department, citing the city's failure to substantially comply with that decree and arguing that the department's own data show minority motorists are still more likely to be ordered out of their cars and frisked during traffic stops.
The U.S. Department of Justice joined the city in filing a separate report. In... Read more
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San Jose Mercury News - San Jo
16 May 2007
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Federal monitor raises concern
LOS ANGELES- A May 1 clash at an immigration rally, when police wielded batons and fired rubber bullets into a crowd, raises questions about the progress of officer training since a corruption scandal forced reforms several years ago, a new report says.
The report by Michael Cherkasky, an independent monitor overseeing reform of the Los Angeles Police Department , said the incident should not obscure the department's significant progress over the past six years, but it did raise concerns about some elements of the force reverting to bad practices of the past.
"Change is difficult," Cherkasky wrote in the report released Tuesday. "It is particularly difficult in large organizations, and it is not unusual or unexpected that vestiges of pre-change behavior may, at times, be revealed. The challenge for the department is how to respond when this occurs."
Cherkasky was appointed by a federal judge in 2001 to oversee a consent decree requiring more than 100 reforms after the Rampart station corruption scandal. His report was in compliance with the decree.
Scores of convictions deemed tainted by the Rampart scandal allegations were thrown out and about $70 million in settlements were paid by the city. Dozens of officers were investigated, leading to some resignations and internal discipline, but there were only a few prosecutions.
Four investigations have been ordered to review the May 1 clash when riot police used batons and rubber bullets to drive protesters and journalists out of MacArthur Park. More than 60 citizen complaints have been filed involving up to 100 officers, police Chief William Bratton said.
Cherkasky, a former prosecutor, said the incident raises several issues.
"Specifically, with regard to the incident itself, the questions of command, control, strategy and tactics at the scene, as well as deviation from departmental policies and procedures relative to permissible uses of force, must be fully examined," he wrote. "Likewise, questions relative to the composition, training and readiness of the Metropolitan Division must be answered."
Bratton said he had the same concerns as Cherkasky and the department was working closely with him.
"The way I approach these things is, 'What can we learn, how do we move forward, how do we learn from it?' And the monitors pretty much are on the same wavelength."
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