Full Coverage: Behind the Badge: Inside the hiring practices of L.A. County Sheriff’s Department
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Despite background investigations that revealed wrongdoing, incompetence, or poor performance, the department still hired dozens of problem applicants in 2010, internal records show.
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New sheriff’s deputies who perform poorly on the job during their first year are not being weeded out, leaving them to potentially cause problems years down the road in life-or-death situations, according to a report by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s inspector general.
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Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca announced Tuesday that he would not seek a fifth term in office and would instead retire at the end of the month.
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The employees were part of a mass hiring of about 280 workers, even though investigators concluded many had committed serious misconduct.
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Assistant Sheriff Jim Hellmold, a trusted confidant, advised Baca that it was a good time to step down. Others in department leadership said they had lost confidence in the sheriff.
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The sheriff says a commission would strengthen transparency and accountability. One of his rivals for reelection, Cmdr. Bob Olmsted, also supports the plan.
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Those hired by other L.A. county agencies included an officer who cut a man’s neck with a knife in an off-duty fight, records show.
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After inquiries from The Times about questionable hires, department shuts program down
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Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department officials in 2010 hired about 80 people they shouldn’t have because of serious problems in their backgrounds, a department official acknowledged Tuesday.
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How and why were dozens of officers with records of misconduct allowed to join the L.A. Sheriff’s Department?
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When Justin Bravo applied to be a Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputy, background investigators noted the young man had some brushes with the law that raised red flags about his past.
