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LA Police Chief Beck Discusses Racial Profiling
After the Rampart scandal in 2001, the Los Angeles Police Department was under a federal consent decree that required monitoring of various reforms. When Judge Gary Feess lifted the decree last year, he said the Department of Justice should continue its oversight of the LAPD’s effort to get rid of racial profiling.
By Warren Olney • • 1 min readAfter the Rampart scandal in 2001, the Los Angeles Police Department was under a federal consent decree that required monitoring of various reforms. When Judge Gary Feess lifted the decree last year, he said the Department of Justice should continue its oversight of the LAPD’s effort to get rid of racial profiling. On Sunday, the LA Times reported on a letter from Washington warning that the LAPD’s are inadequate, quoting an officer as saying he “couldn’t do [his] job without racial profiling. We hear more from LA Police Chief Charlie Beck.
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The full episode
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- 7:20LA Police Chief Beck Discusses Racial ProfilingYou’re reading this
- 20:20Attorney General Campaigns Focus on the Ballot Counting
- 25:48Can the Lame Duck Congress Get Anything Done?