NEW COUNTY SHERIFF TAKES COMMAND; BACA VOWS TO FIGHT GANGS AND JOIN RANK, FILE IN FIELD.Byline: Douglas Haberman Daily News Staff Writer 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. was sworn in as 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's new sheriff Monday before nearly 3,000 supporters, government officials and law enforcement officers at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium Civic Auditorium is a name commonly used for a city's auditorium and/or arena. Canada
The 56-year-old Baca vowed to be an in-the-field sheriff. ``I'm fit and ready, and I'm prepared to work in the jails, as a bailiff bailiff Officer of some U.S. courts whose duties include keeping order in the courtroom and guarding prisoners or jurors in deliberation. In medieval Europe, it was a title of some dignity and power, denoting a manorial superintendent or royal agent who collected fines and in the courts, and go out and arrest suspects,'' Baca said. He said he expects to spend a fifth of his time in these activities. Baca promised to make fighting gangs his top priority. He also said he will recommend appointment of an inspector general to examine the nation's largest jail system. The new sheriff said he will seek $100 million more for the department to make up for years when its budget was cut by $190 million. Baca said he wants to add 800 deputies, including 300 detectives, in the department with 14,500 budgeted positions. The department has 3,000 unsolved homicides in its caseload case·load n. The number of cases handled in a given period, as by an attorney or by a clinic or social services agency. caseload Noun , Baca said. ``That is unacceptable to me.'' 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. will stand with the sheriff on appropriations to get the job done, Supervisor Don Knabe Donald R. Knabe (born October 15, 1943 in Illinois) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, serving the Fourth District, a crescent shaped district that covers the coastline from Marina Del Rey southward to Long Beach, and southeastern Los Angeles County to predicted. Baca, a Pasadena resident, plans to start a leadership institute for everyone in the department, including himself. One of the goals will be to teach sensitivity to cultural diversity, he said. ``We're against racism, we're against homophobia, we're against sexism, we're against bigotry and we're against anti-Semitism,'' Baca said to applause. Baca promoted 15 people Monday, including five to his top command staff. Of the 15, two are African-American men, one is a Latino man, two are white women and 10 are white men. The new undersheriff Un´der`sher`iff n. 1. A sheriff's deputy. is Paul Myron, formerly chief of patrol operations in the region that includes Agoura Hills, Lancaster, Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Baca named former Cmdrs. Bill Stonich and Larry Waldie as assistant sheriffs. The ceremony Monday included a poignant moment when Sheriff Emeritus Peter Pitchess, standing with the aid of a walker, got some help from Baca's son, Deputy David Baca, to pin the badge on the new sheriff. Pitchess roused applause when he gave Baca some advice: ``You are the sheriff. You and your colleagues will run this department and brook no interference.'' Performing the invocation was Rabbi Steven Jacobs of Temple Kol Tikvah in Woodland Hills. Noting that Baca ran against incumbent Sheriff Sherman Block, Jacobs told Baca: ``You have made decisions that now give you the opportunity to be a great and sensitive leader.'' Block died in the last week of the campaign at age 74. ``My only regret is Sheriff Block couldn't be here to support this effort,'' Baca said. ``I know he would - from the bottom of my heart. And I do miss him.'' CAPTION(S): photo PHOTO New Sheriff Lee Baca, left, gets his badge pinned on Monday by his son, David, a deputy, center, and Sheriff Emeritus Peter Pitchess. Leo Leo, in astronomy Leo [Lat.,=the lion], northern constellation lying S of Ursa Major and on the ecliptic (apparent path of the sun through the heavens) between Cancer and Virgo; it is one of the constellations of the zodiac. Jarzomb |
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