Commander, LAPD's Office of Special Operations
Los Angeles Police Department Commander in the Office of Special Operations
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Scott Kroeber
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FROM Scott Kroeber
Which Way, L.A.?
LA Builds a Jail for No One It's a state-of-the-art facility with electronic fingerprinting and a monitoring system that could provide updates on overcrowding -- if there were any inmates. What it needs is 100 additional jailers, but there's a hiring freeze. So, the $74 million structure stands empty. We hear more from LAPD Commander Scott Kroeber and Rob Saltzman of the LA Police Commission.
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