Posted on 12/03/2020 8:40:49 AM PST by BenLurkin
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has authorized his deputies to conceal their names while policing protests and other civil disturbances.
Villanueva said Wednesday that the change to the department’s long-standing practice of requiring deputies to wear tags engraved with their last names on their uniform shirts was in response to recent incidents in which deputies were harassed and had personal information revealed by protesters.
The change came after a protest last week outside Men’s Central Jail at which several deputies were filmed with duct tape covering their name tags. The move troubled activists and department watchdogs, who said such obfuscation made it much harder to hold deputies accountable and fueled distrust among communities demanding greater transparency and reforms by police agencies. Some said replacing deputies’ names with a number will make it harder to identify deputies who they accuse of abusive conduct during chaotic situations at protests.
Villanueva explained his reasoning, saying protesters have used deputies’ name tags to find their home addresses and spread the information on social media. At times, he said, people have shown up at deputies’ homes and vandalized their property.
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So now anyone who wants can pretend to be a sheriff.
My name has never been on any of my uniforms. I never even thought about it to be honest.
Can citizens shield their identity from sheriff deputies to protect their privacy also??
They can run but they can’t hide.
People are going to find out that in war, there are no rules.
I bolted from So Calif in May 1993.
I NO LONGER felt safe there.
Don’t miss it.
Won’t go back.
Idiot post of the day.
Now anyone can pretend to be an LA County Sheriff!!
I thought eyeamok had a great point. If it’s okay for the LASD to hide their identities (and their accountability) then why can’t we?
This is just another example of the tyranny that has descended upon our country with the excuse of Wuhan Flu to cover it.
What’s next? No more Fifth Amendment? That pesky thing really pisses off the rogue police who break their oaths on a daily basis.
This is the same sheriff who says that he can’t do anything about the gangs within the department.
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