LAPD ON GRILL FOR INTERNAL-AFFAIRS STING GONE AWRY.Byline: Jason Kandel Staff Writer 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. City Councilman Dennis Zine is expected to introduce a motion today asking Police Chief William Bratton to address the City Council about an officer-involved shooting that went awry last week in South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. . The incident has created concern inside 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 . about how it was handled. Zine said he has been getting calls from concerned officers who want to know what happened about midnight Wednesday when nearly a dozen internal-affairs detectives were ambushed by gang members while working an undercover sting operation Noun 1. sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) . The detectives apparently returned fire without calling for backup. ``There's a big question mark, a big cloud,'' Zine said. ``We need to resolve the cloud. We can't let this type of thing linger and fester fester /fes·ter/ (fes´ter) to suppurate superficially. fes·ter v. 1. To ulcerate. 2. To form pus; putrefy. n. An ulcer. .'' None of the officers was injured, but the shooters got away in a maroon maroon, term for a fugitive slave in the 17th and 18th cent. in the West Indies and Guiana, or for a descendant of such slaves. They were called marron by the French and cimarrón by the Spanish. vehicle. LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. Southeast Division patrol officers heard gunfire near 91st and Stanford streets but were not promptly told there had been an officer-involved shooting. The target of the criticism was Deputy Chief Michael Berkow, whose officers reportedly left the scene without notifying patrol officers who might have been able to find the assailants. Berkow said he pulled his officers off the street immediately to protect their identities, but otherwise carried out all proper protocols. ``All of the normal requirements of the 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. and LAPD officer-involved shooting protocol were followed,'' a spokesman for Berkow wrote in a press release. ``Because of the unique nature of (these) investigations and its personnel, ... special procedures were followed to protect the identities of the involved officers.'' Zine said he hoped to meet today with Berkow to discuss the case. ``We need to get to the truth of the matter,'' said Zine, who talked with Berkow about the incident Monday. ``(Berkow) did say there were mistakes made. Well, how big, how small, were those mistakes?'' Zine was also expected to introduce a motion to have Bratton address the full City Council on the matter. Councilman Bernard Parks, a mayoral candidate, wrote a letter to Bratton on Monday expressing disappointment with the department and asking for a discussion of the incident before the council's Public Safety Committee. ``It is blatantly obvious that information on an officer-involved shooting, especially one with very serious officer misconduct allegations, should not be a secret,'' Parks wrote. Jason Kandel, (818) 713-3664 jason.kandel(at)dailynews.com |
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