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| LASD-Another Los Angeles Dumpster Fire |
| 2025-05-18 |
| [RedState] LA County Sheriff Luna Highlights His Rancid Leadership at Hearing, Gutting Department by 24 Percent It is no secret now that California is hostile towards law enforcement. Their soft-on-crime policies and laws have made it incredibly hard to do the job, let alone live in the state, without worrying about getting victimized. But now, with recent numbers being publicly disclosed, the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is admitting that they have a problem. At Thursday's Civilian Oversight Committee hearing, Assistant Sheriff Jason Skeen reported to the committee that the department has 4,166 vacancies on the department. Skeen laid it out plain for the Committee: things are not okay: “For every three people, they have to do the duties of one additional person,” Skeen said. Sheriff Robert Luna is quite literally killing his department, throwing his deputies under the bus, putting bogus and/or embellished cases on them; some families would even say that his policies and poor leadership led to the suicides of some, and murders of others. Since Luna took the reins on the department, there have been 12 current or former deputies and custody assistants who have committed suicide; Deputy Ryan Clinkunbroomer was murdered in an ambush killing outside of his patrol station. Additionally, Deputy Alfredo “Freddy” Flores was tragically killed in a mobile range explosion that was arguably preventable. The range that blew up was over 20 years old and had been retired, but was put back into service because the department lacked the money to fix the newer one. These are just some of the glaring examples of Luna's rancid leadership, and after today, the numbers do not lie. The LASD is running at roughly 75 percent staffing levels, and every employee is doing double, if not triple, the amount of work. Overtime levels are off the charts; some deputies are working 2, 3, sometimes 4 shifts of overtime every single week. If you add that up, these deputies are working at least one additional week's worth of shifts a month. My local Sheriff's station has roughly 135 patrol deputy positions, with only 90 of them being filled. And speaking with an LAPD officer on the condition of anonymity, they say that by year's end, the department is on pace to drop to 8,400 officers or fewer. These are numbers not seen since the '80s. To be clear, a department that, when fully staffed, is just over 17,000 people, with 8,000-10,000 of those being sworn personnel, is now running at under 13,000 people; there is a huge problem. Most of those vacancies are sworn staff, and those people have either been willingly quitting or retiring early, or have been forcibly removed, either by firing or taking medical retirement. Deputies do not want to work for Luna or any of his people anymore. The leadership is beyond toxic, and it is displaying plainly now. Sheriff Luna is not showing any signs of remorse, regret, or any other emotion that would tell his people that he may have made some mistakes. No, he seems to think he is doing just fine, and lies openly and proudly to his deputies that he supports them. Luna is the anti-cop; he pleases and serves his masters on the LA County Board of Supervisors first and foremost. He has taken a stance that every deputy sheriff fears: he fires them first and then asks for forgiveness. |
| Posted by:NoMoreBS |
| #4 Luna was elected in 2022. He defeated Alex Villanueva who served from 2018. Villanueva was the first Democrat to be county Sheriff. That's how quickly the Democrats can ruin things. |
| Posted by: Lord Garth 2025-05-18 16:07 |
| #3 Is a promotion in store for Luna? |
| Posted by: DooDahMan 2025-05-18 08:02 |
| #2 "You'll own nothing and you'll be happy" ~ A phrase published by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in support of a "sharing economy." Danish author and socialist Ida Auken |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2025-05-18 06:33 |
| #1 Police enforce private property. Noo police means no private property. The entire end-goal of Marxism. |
| Posted by: Jairong+Scourge+of+the+Gepids2435 2025-05-18 04:42 |