::Los Angeles has been at this sort of crossroads before. Civil rights attorney Connie Rice has spent decades working with police officials and community groups in Los Angeles trying to dislodge that perspective. “As somebody who is in the weeds, I can see a lot of change at the top” in the LAPD, she said. Beck believed the department could change, he told me recently, because he’d seen the change take hold of him. “But then they were buying tables to the [award] event.”Now the LAPD’s current chief, Michel Moore, is also dipping his toe in the waters of culture change.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 27, 2021 13:02 UTC