L.A. Now Live: Sheriff’s Department wrongly hired problem officers
Join Times staffer Ben Poston for an L.A. Now Live discussion at 9 a.m. Wednesday about the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department’s admission that it hired about 80 officers who should have been disqualified.
Those officers should have been disqualified because of problems in their backgrounds including criminal convictions and poor job performance.
The admission comes a couple of weeks after a Times investigation found the agency hired dozens of officers from a disbanded county police force even though sheriff’s investigators found substantial misconduct in their pasts.
During the online chat, readers can submit all of their questions and comments and we’ll get to as many of them as we can. See you online at 9 a.m. for L.A. Now Live.
[For the Record, 10:15 a.m. PST, Dec. 18: During the live chat, a reader asked about problem officers who have been disciplined for bad behavior since being hired. A Times staffer misread the question and responded to it by detailing officer misconduct that occurred prior to them being hired by the Sheriff’s Department, not after.
In answer to the question, The Times is aware of two hires who have been disciplined for failing to report excessive force and for criminal activity. Another has been accused of excessive force and theft.]
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