The department is investigating last week’s shooting in accordance with that law, officials announced. But many efforts at reforming law enforcement practices have fizzled as leaders in Los Angeles and across California have scrambled to address fears of rising violent crime and anxiety provoked by a wave of high-profile “flash mob” robberies at high-end stores. This year, Mr. Garcetti and the City Council backed a modest increase in funding for the Los Angeles Police Department. Progressive activists in Los Angeles have described those declarations as a disheartening reversal. Mr. Corado is now running for the Los Angeles City Council in hopes of working to dismantle the city’s police department, an agency that he said is too fundamentally flawed to be repaired.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 29, 2021 05:43 UTC