The city of Compton accused the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department of “rampant” fraud on Wednesday, claiming the agency routinely charges for patrol work that is not done. Advertisement“Taxpayers are footing the bill for law enforcement services, and they’re expecting those services to be provided,” Compton City Atty. Inspector General Max Huntsman, an independent watchdog over the Sheriff’s Department, has said similar claims of falsified patrol records have been made against the department before. The Times in March requested daily unit logs and patrol rosters in an attempt to determine whether the Sheriff’s Department was shortchanging Compton on its patrol minutes. For a time, the Sheriff’s Department was heralded for the drop in homicides that came after the agency took over policing.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 26, 2021 21:02 UTC