He was elected in 2018 after running as a progressive Democrat who would reform the department. He ended up fiercely resisting oversight and clashing with watchdogs and the rest of the county’s political establishment.
The Los Angeles Sheriff's Department is apparently incapable of being reformed. Over the years, the LASD has run an illegal prison informant program, one that culminated in an FBI investigation during which the LASD threatened FBI agents and federal witnesses. But what can one really expect from an agency willing to staff itself with statutory…
JURIST is launching a new series of dispatches from major US states written by JURIST correspondents on the ground in those jurisdictions. JURIST Operations Director Ram Eachambadi files this report.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva and his second-in-command on Thursday defied subpoenas requiring them to testify before an oversight commission