In D.A.’s race framed by reform, George Gascón's police career is under a microscope

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In his bid to become L.A. County's next district attorney, George Gascón has touted his record as a reformer. While many praise his history, questions are being raised about his handling of LAPD.

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Police boards overruled commission’s findings that four shootings were improper. Panels have a history of meting out uneven penalties.In a recent interview, Gascón said that he did not believe the shooting was justified but felt it was unfair to punish an officer influenced by a video “widely spread through” the LAPD. More broadly, Gascón said it was unreasonable to judge his stances in 2020 based on decades-old decisions.

Parks said he believes Gascón was lenient when he sat on disciplinary boards and dismissed his progressive stances as “inauthentic” and mostly designed to benefit his political aspirations. Former LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, who has endorsed Gascón, praised him for pushing community-oriented approaches to stopping gang violence. He dismissed suggestions that Gascón was lenient on discipline on the Board of Rights review panels.

Gascón revised the department’s use-of-force policy, while instituting the LAPD’s high-tech CompStat model to improve the agency’s ability to track crime data. “He took police misconduct seriously and he made some changes in the Internal Affairs Division and tried to make it be far more professional,” she said. “Those who were in command staff, he started to hold them far more accountable because he wasn’t part of the legacy eras of SFPD.”

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Raja M....... Assam India ?🙏🙏

Reform? You mean that we will literally go back in time and have a front row seat in watching crime go up. But that's job security for those of us sticking around to watch it. Cheers🍻

Electing this guy would be one of the few ways left to make LA even worse than it is.

THE big question before any reform:

I hated you guys !

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