EDITORIAL STRETCHED TOO THIN.IS the lure of money behind an inequitable distribution of sheriff's deputies in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County? That's what the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. indicated Wednesday when members grilled Sheriff Lee Baca Leroy David Baca (b. May 27 1942, East Los Angeles, California) is the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California. After graduating from Benjamin Franklin High School (Los Angeles) in 1960, Baca worked his way through East Los Angeles College before starting with the L.A. about why he has a shortage of 1,000 deputies, but is still taking on more contract duties. The sheriff has paid contracts to serve other cities and agencies with police duties, and is seeking to expand some of those contracts. While Baca and the supervisors have a stormy storm·y adj. storm·i·er, storm·i·est 1. Subject to, characterized by, or affected by storms; tempestuous. 2. relationship that occasionally erupts into name-calling, it's fair to ask whether Baca is stretching the department too thin. The Sheriff's Department ought to be covering the basic service for the customers it's already got before it takes on more deputy-consuming contracts. |
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