CITY, FEDS FORGE NEW LAPD RULES COUNCIL SET TO REVIEW DEAL.Byline: Rick Orlov Staff Writer After six more weeks of negotiations, city and federal officials on Tuesday reached agreement on a consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. for a federal monitor to oversee reform of the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . , including a
requirement for a racial-profiling program.
The City Council has scheduled a special meeting for Thursday afternoon to review the 114-page document that is intended to create major changes in how the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. conducts itself and reviews possible misconduct by its 9,178 sworn officers. ``I think this is a real-life, doable document,'' City Attorney James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California said. ``It doesn't turn the operation of the LAPD over to the federal government. It does say that we will get about the long-delayed business of police reform and try to restore public confidence in our Police Department.'' The Department of Justice has been seeking the consent decree since last May, at the height of disclosures regarding corruption in the LAPD Rampart Division's anti-gang Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums, usually known as CRASH, was a special unit of the Los Angeles Police Department established in the early 1970s to combat the rising problem of gangs in Los Angeles, California. unit. Mayor Richard Riordan Richard J. Riordan (born May 1, 1930) is a Republican politician from California, U.S. who served as the California Secretary of Education from 2003–2005 and as Mayor of Los Angeles from 1993–2001. Riordan ran for Governor of California unsuccessfully in 2002. , who reluctantly agreed to go along with the consent decree if a number of conditions would be met in final negotiations, was studying the document and had no comment, aides said. Deputy Mayor Kelly Martin, who was on the city side of the negotiating team, said the document addressed many of Riordan's concerns on the role of the monitor, costs and the ability of local officials to run the department. Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. , who initially fought the proposal, also said he would not comment on the decree until the council takes its final action. City Council President John Ferraro John Ferraro (May 14 1924—April 17 2001) served as a Los Angeles City Councilman from 1966 until his death. Early life Ferraro was born in the working class suburb of Cudahy, California, just south of Los Angeles. praised the efforts of the negotiating team as allowing the city to move on to create police reform. ``I'm confident the final agreement is in the best interest of the LAPD and the people of Los Angeles,'' Ferraro said. Costs of implementing the decree are estimated at upward of $40 million for the first year - primarily to develop a computerized tracking system of problem officers - and between $30 million to $50 million a year after that. City officials have given no indication how the added costs will be paid for. The decree will be in effect for a minimum of five years and can be lifted only by the federal courts. One wild card in the adoption of the decree is the role of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union representing police officers, which fought unsuccessfully in court to be part of the negotiations. Protective League Director Dennis Zine said officers have a number of concerns about the agreement developed by city and federal negotiators. ``They just want to push it through and we haven't been part of the process,'' Zine said. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. what the final resolution will be. We are concerned for our officers and the taxpayers of Los Angeles and the level of protection we are able to provide.'' League officials have said they intend to reserve their right to ``meet and confer'' on work-rule issues. Martin said the city team was able to convince the Justice Department to limit the role of the monitor who will oversee the city's compliance with the consent decree, and to limit the monitor's cost to about $10 million over the five-year period. Another major provision deals with racial profiling The consideration of race, ethnicity, or national origin by an officer of the law in deciding when and how to intervene in an enforcement capacity. Police officers often profile certain types of individuals who are more likely to perpetrate crimes. . Under the terms of the proposal, officers will not have to fill out reports on the race of people they stop in the direct course of a criminal investigation. |
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