Posted on 04/06/2023 5:59:14 PM PDT by Enterprise
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 300 undercover Los Angeles police officers filed legal claims against the city and police department Tuesday after their names and photographs were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online.
The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition posted more than 9,300 officers’ information and photographs last month in a searchable online database following a public records request by a reporter for progressive news outlet Knock LA. Hundreds of undercover officers were included in the database, although it’s not clear exactly how many because the database doesn’t specify which officers work undercover.
The officers were not given advance notice of the disclosure, and the backlash has roiled the department. The inspector general is investigating Chief Michel Moore and the agency’s constitutional policing director Liz Rhodes after an officers’ union filed a misconduct complaint.
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The claims allege negligence and seek unspecified damages. The plaintiffs say they can no longer work as undercover officers and, in some cases, may not be able to work in policing altogether going forward.
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Sounds like the makings of another episode of Bosch.
Is Money Chandler representing the plaintiffs? LOL
I’m not sure I have sympathy here. Undercover has been abused by agencies. Time to put uniforms and badges back on and let us see the protectors vs the jack boots.
At all levels of government and officialdom, the criminal incompetence of our “public servants” (lol) is surpassed only by their villainous treason.
Like using unmarked cars for traffic enforcement...It’s a hot tread in many regions...
LEO’s go under cover, infiltrate groups and make contact with individual citizens. They use paid informants to do the same thing and pressure informants into illegal situations so they can say they are getting results. They try their best to influence illegal activities, going as far as being side-by-side with individuals and urging them to break the law at the time the crime is committed. They ride this thin line of entrapment all the time. (Maybe you recall a little thing that happened on 1/6.)
Often times, while the cops are supposedly doing their jobs, they have DA’s and/or AG employees already on the job collecting information from the cops and informants work, ALL PRIOR to a crime being committed. These “sting” operations are not in response to crime, but to create crime. It’s the lifeblood for the political careers of DA’s and AG’s across the country.
Police can make their presence known by wearing a uniform and walking a beat in high crime areas. They need to gain the public’s trust (they certainly do not have mine), by not trying to trick the public, but by being honest, available and there to help. They can be there to defend citizens instead of hiding among criminals. They can be regularly investigated to ensure they are not being paid off by criminals.
Transparency with checks and balances will work.
Why?
Thanks for your analysis.
Let’s let the guilty know who each cop, who is chasing them, is. So they can threaten the cop directly. Even burn down their house.
What a brilliant idea
You agree with conservativePa but sarcastically rebut me when I said the same thing in fewer words. I guess you can’t make up your mind?
These are LA cops. How many have arrested people over gun control violations?
I don't watch Bosch and I don't know who Money Chandler is. LOL
Duly noted.
Interesting observations. However, it is off topic.
Thank you for your opinions.
Someone broke the law, someone needs to go to jail.
Bump!
Off topic.
“The watchdog group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition...”
Sounds like a Leftist group. But here’s the problem for them, virtually all of the spying done today is against MAGA types in order to continue the flow of False Flags - and this group just put an end to it, at least in Los Angeles.
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