LAPD COMMISSIONER WANTS “REAL AND MEANINGFUL DIALOGUE” ABOUT BIAS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT
On Tuesday, the Los Angeles Police Commission passed a motion calling for an in-depth look at how the LAPD deals with bias complaints from citizens. Commissioner Cynthia McClain-Hill introduced the motion after an Internal Affairs Quarterly Report revealed that, once again, the department has not upheld any complaints of biased policing, which includes a racial, gender, disability, anti-LGBTQ, and other forms of discrimination.
According to the latest IA report, there were 209 reports of biased policing in the first half of 2016, none of which were sustained. In fact, none of the more than 1,500 citizen complaints of bias since 2013 have been upheld by the department.
The motion directs department officials to compare the LAPD’s results and complaint-handling processes with those of police departments in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Dallas, and Baltimore. Department officials will collect information on how each department defines biased policing or racial profiling, the number of complaints against officers and how many of those complaints were upheld, as well as how many sworn each department has and the demographics of the cities they police.
Officials are to report back to the commission at a community meeting to be held on November 1.
“My goal here is to get us beyond the limitations, which seem obvious, of relying on a single metric, that is to say just the numbers captured” by the quarterly IA reports, McClain-Hill said.
The motion also seeks information on how the LAPD identifies bias in potential officers during the recruitment process, and what kind—and how many hours—of training recruits in the academy receive regarding biased policing and implicit bias. McClain-Hill also requests a status update on implicit bias training provided to active officers.
While McClain Hill said she hopes for “real and meaningful dialogue to serve as the basis for real and meaningful policymaking, she also stressed that the focus on bias does not imply that officers are showing up to work “for any reason other than to do the very best they can protecting this city.”
“Biased policing”. What exactly is that? Story doesn’t say, just assumes there must be some somewhere. Come to think of it, what human endever doesn’t have some kind of bias? This story itself is obviously biased against the police. This blog is extremely biased. Probably a more accurate wording of this story would be that the police have the wrong kind of bias, not the fashionable black lives matter kinda bias, but the old law and order kind of bias.
For decades Libs have complained about LAPD. Ok, in years past it was true about how most agencies did their policing. And now the libs are complaining because the police changed? Should their be a quota for example;for every ten complaints we should make 2 founded? To make the lbs feel good should we have “Affirmative Action” for police complaints?
We looked at hiring practices for Homosexuals, minorities, women and very kind of vegetative under the sun as well in the shade. As long as they were qualified who cared? And what did we get for all this? Black Lives Matter? Give it up the horse died years ago!
#1 (Nicobar): “‘ Biased policing'”. What exactly is that?
Answer: the bias that someone from a high-crime neighborhood is probably up to no good.
How do we eliminate such a bias?
Beats me, but the onus should probably fall on the neighborhoods.
This hilarious. Don’t lose sleep over it.
What does anyone expect when biases exist within LAPD and LASD, amongst sworn officers.