Bass reaffirmed her optimism that the division’s staffing issues could be remedied.
The mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, has pledged to fire any police personnel who have ties to “right-wing domestic extremist organizations” and has requested that “obstacles” be removed so that the city can attract more skilled police officers.
Bass, in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital, detailed her public safety priorities, including a proposal to increase diversity within the LAPD by lowering the “obstacles” that prevent prospective police officers from meeting the requirements to join the force. Police union chiefs, though, have voiced reservations about the plan.
Bass includes a timeline and requirements for the department’s progress report in his reform goals statement. To “examine the personnel system and identify impediments to admittance for applicants who fail to qualify for training,” the assistant mayor has been entrusted with bringing in outside expertise.
Tom Saggau, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Protective League (LAPPL), was reported as saying on Fox News Digital, “We view that provision, that purpose, that approach to be detrimental.”
“recruits that have been in the academy who just can’t score the fundamental requirements for a physical fitness test,” he said, are an example of police officers who don’t satisfy standards. “If there was a scale from 0 to 100 (with 100 being perfection), a 50 would be regarded adequate. Humans on Earth can have an IQ of 10. Using such a strategy is fraught with peril.”
The section states that when making proposals to lower barriers, “ethnic groups disproportionately left out of new officer training” should be given special consideration.
Those who don’t have the requisite skills “possess the mental fitness or the physical fitness ability to be a police officer,” as Saggau puts it, are therefore unlikely to succeed in training.
Saggau claims that doing so will lead to disastrous consequences. This is why we consider low standards to be an awful example.
The report adds that another goal is to “identify, punish, and/or remove officers linked with right-wing domestic extremist organizations.” A report on the clause’s implementation by the LAPD is due in August.
Saggau insisted on including conservatives, liberals, internationalists, and nationalists in the discussion. The list of organizations that police officers are advised not to join is, in our opinion, far too long.
Bass also proposed a system-wide Mental Assessment Team and an enlargement of the Mental Evaluation Unit to address the issue of police shootings.
Bass, as reported by the Los Angeles Times, intends to prioritize “crime reduction, personnel reform, alternative response, and community policing” after the release of her goals brief. She intends to recruit and hire new homicide detectives to replace the vacancies left by the departing ones and the retirees.
“We need additional cops, and even Mayor Bass agrees with that. We must now devise a strategy for reaching our destination. We are committed to and fully endorse civilianizing circumstances in which police officers execute police duties and other staff undertake other non-police activities.” To paraphrase Saggau.