Notes from the April 24, 2025 Police Commission Weekly Meeting

•Reminder: the public hearing pertaining to Chief Bratton's request for reappointment will take place on Monday, April 30, 2025 at 6:30 p.m. in the Department of Water and Power Auditorium at 111 North Hope Street, Los Angeles, California, 90012.  Input from the public is an essential element for a comprehensive review of Chief Bratton's service to the City of Los Angeles.

•There will be no weekly Commission meeting on Tuesday, May 1, 2007.  The next weekly meeting will take place on Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 9:30 a.m. in Parker Center, Room 146.

•The Department's report relative to Professional Standards Bureau protocol on racial profiling investigations, has been modified and will be on the agenda for the May 8, 2025 Commission meeting.

•The Commission observed a moment of silence in honor of Congresswoman Juanita Millender-McDonald of California's 37th congressional district, who died on April 22, 2007.

•There are currently 414 recruits in the Academy.  41 cadets will graduate on Friday, April 27, 2007.

•Chief Bratton will present the Department's budget proposal before City Council on Thursday, April 26, 2007.  The budget proposal, if approved, will fund the addition of 780 new officers next year.  After attrition, this will add 300 officers to the force.

•Chief Bratton will speak on Crisis Management with respect to terrorism at the Milken Institute's 2007 Global Conference on Tuesday, April 24, 2007.

•City Councilmember José Huizar has motioned to name the Hollenbeck Replacement Station in honor of Rudy de Leon, the first Latino to be named captain of the Hollenbeck Area.

•Chief Bratton will travel with Mayor Villaraigosa to El Salvador meet with the president for the signing of the agreement between our law enforcement agencies to cooperate on gang efforts.  Afterward, they will travel to Mexico to meet with the president and discuss the same matter.

•The May Day March will take place on May 1, 2007.  In addition to the march, there will be two parades.  A large turnout is expected.

•The promotion ceremony on Monday, April 30, 2025 will be the largest in the modern era of the Department and will see an increase in the number of women and minorities to the command staff. 

•Deputy Mayor for Homeland Security and Public Safety Arif Alikhan presented the Mayor's gang prevention initiatives to the Commission.

•The Department's report relative to a Special Event Permit application for the May Day March for Workers Rights was conditionally approved for the May Day March.

•The Department's report in response to City Council's request concerning the Department's Youth Gang Prevention, Intervention and Suppression Programs, was approved and transmitted to the Ad Hoc Committee on Gang Violence and Youth Development.

•The Department's report relative to criminal case filing rates of arrested individuals was approved with the addition of an amendment that will provide year-to-year data for analyzing trends.
The Department's report relative to the Consent Decree/Gang Enforcement Detail Status Report, First Quarter 2007, was approved.

•The Department's report relative to the Audit Recommendation Status Report, Fourth Quarter 2006, in accordance with Paragraph 154 of the Consent Decree, was continued 2 weeks.

•The Department's report and the Office of the Inspector General's report, both relative to Audio Tapes Used in Non-Categorical Use of Force Investigation and Complaint Investigations Audit, Second Quarter, Fiscal Year 2006/2007, in accordance with the Annual Audit Plan, was approved.

Comments

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The below quote is from yesterday's L.A. Times regarding the LAPD's crackdown on gangsters and drug dealers in downtown's Skid Row:

"U.S. District Judge Dean D. Pregerson found that officers question -- and at times search -- parolees and probationers without evidence that they might have committed a crime, which the judge said was unconstitutional. He ordered the LAPD to change its practices."

The ACLU went shopping around for a federal judge that has obviously not been reading recent Supreme Court decisions. He also confuses parole with probation. Let me clarify it for the ACLU and for the community members who read this blog:

Probation is part of a sentence and is an "agreement" between the court and the defendant, where the defendant will agree to the conditions of probation IN LIEU of going to prison. Some of those conditions include submitting to search and seizure at any time by law enforcement officers. Not all conditions include search and seizure, but the defendant SIGNS the paperwork indicating he AGREES with the terms. The defendant KNOWS if he has search and seizure conditions and officers must ask or know this BEFORE they search someone.

Now, parole is another matter altogether. When a prisoner is placed on PAROLE and released into the community, he or she is still in the custody of the Department of Corrections, except now the prisoner is serving the REMAINING part of his or her sentence in the community instead of in prison.

The parolee DOES NOT have a constitutional right against search and seizure the same way he doesn't have it in prison. That means if officers discover that a suspect is on parole, they may search him and his property at any time without cause. I find it interesting when parolees or their families are shocked that the police would actually search them for drugs, weapons or other contraband without suspicion of a crime. They know the rules. That's why over 80% of all parolees return to prison within the first year. They can't stay away from drugs and weapons.

A federal judge making a ruling that parolees can't be searched unless they are suspected of committing a crime is both a foolish interpretation of current law, and naive to believe it will stand. But it doens't suprise me that the ACLU found this jurist.

This decision will be overturned. Again.

If the ACLU only spent it's time and energy on real legal problems like seeking restitution for victims of gang violence, against gang members, their families and enablers. Now THAT would be a real public service.

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Being on probation and parole is an agreement made by the DEFENDANT.

If the perp doesn't want to be searched/seized w/o reason they can choose to do their whole sentence inside jail/prison and then come out a truly free man.

What don't the courts understand?