Luna is running as the liberal reformist to current Sheriff Alex Villanueva’s fascistic macho tough guy in cowboy hat pose.
Luna is the former chief of the Long Beach Police Department and one of the leading contenders in this race. TACO and Neon Hum can make a second award-nominated season of The Sellout !
Oh! With fewer watchdogs and oversight watching out for the rampant corruption in L.A., maybe a new corruption scandal can erupt, and L.A. She wants to disband the department’s Public Corruption Unit, gives their caseload to the FBI or the state’s Department of Justice, and give their budget to the Sheriff’s department. Saucedo Hood wants more cops patrolling “hot-spots” throughout the county and start a program where deputies have food and care packages to give to unhoused people. Still, she also intends to replace most of the supervisors in the LASD.Īpril Saucedo Hood is a State Parole Agent. Here are those candidates for this year’s primary: Sheriff CandidatesĬarranza is a supervisor at the Twin Towers Correction Facility, the panopticon hellscape prison downtown that a county health care worker called a “human rights disaster.” When speaking to LAist for a story about the horrible conditions in the jail, Carranza wants more personnel in the LASD.
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But everyday folks have some amount of power to hold at least the Sheriff’s Department accountable by voting on who will lead the department and who will be the judges of the law in trial courts throughout the county by voting on trial court judges. Still, there’s often a lot of talk with minimal action to back it up and do something about it. Our local elected officials talk about holding the police and Sheriffs departments accountable for breaking the law, terrorizing communities, being in gangs, and taking so much of our tax dollars.