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Sheriff Lee Baca Resigns… Why Now?
Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will step down at the end of the month. He made the announcement at a news conference this morning. Baca was running for a fifth four-year term and facing some stiff opposition, not to mention a lot of negative press.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readLos Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will step down at the end of the month. He made the announcement at a news conference this morning. Baca was running for a fifth four-year term and facing some stiff opposition, not to mention a lot of negative press. Earlier today on KCRW, LA Times reporter Robert Faturechi ran down the scandals that have plagued Baca's tenure, not least of which is the recent federal indictment of 18 sheriff's deputies.
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Madeleine Brand
Host, 'Press Play'
Barbara Bogaev
radio journalist
Evan George
Director of Content, News
Benjamin Gottlieb
Reporter, Fill-in Host
Andrea Brody
Senior Producer, KCRW's Life Examined and To the Point podcast
Robert Faturechi
ProPublica
Fernando Guerra
professor of political science at Loyola Marymount University and director of its Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Richard Drooyan
Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence
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