Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca takes questions from the media after the FBI released results of a federal probe, Monday, Dec 9, 2013 at a news conference in Los Angeles. Nick Ut — The associated press
By Christina Villacorte, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 12/14/13, 1:00 PM PST |
Hours after the FBI rounded up 18 of his officers for various alleged crimes, ranging from beating inmates to obstruction of justice, Sheriff Lee Baca tried to project the image of someone who had the situation under control.
“There is no perfect law enforcement agency anywhere in the world but what I do is I tell the truth,” he told reporters on Dec. 9. “I accept responsibility, and I also believe in correcting things and getting proactive.”
“You haven’t seen me retire from the job,” he added. “You haven’t seen me blame somebody else besides me for whatever the challenges are.”
Whether the 71-year-old Baca will be forced to retire will be decided by voters in June. He faces several challengers in his bid to continue leading the world’s largest sheriff’s department — one that has a budget of $2.4 billion and a staff of about 18,000 responsible for protecting about 4 million people.
In previous years, his re-election victories had been almost taken for granted.
Baca won election in 1998 after challenging incumbent Sheriff Sherman Block, who died a few days before the vote. Now in his fourth term, Baca has trounced every challenger since then and ran unopposed in the last election.
But after 15 years in office, problems in the jails have taken a toll on his image.
Early in 2012, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action lawsuit against Baca, accusing him of condoning a pattern of deputies using excessive force on inmates.
Late in 2012, the Commission on Jail Violence criticized Baca’s “failure of leadership,” saying he “did not pay attention to the jails.”
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Stick a fork in him. He’s done.
I will really miss his 1000 mile stare and confused thought processes during press briefings. He was almost as bad as Villaraigosa.
I wonder why Paul Schrader doesn’t run for the county he has been employed with for years? Maybe because everybody who has worked with him knows he is a slap and couldn’t even run a patrol car.
“I wonder why Paul Schrader doesn’t run for the county he has been employed with for years?”
THAT’S FUNNY, MAYBE BECAUSE THEY KNOW HIM VERY WELL!
Now Joe we know you are a coward and afraid of MR SCHRADER. We also know that weak fool you support McFool is also very afraid of Schrader. You both know Schrader has forgot more than McFool has ever known. But please continue to post. You have never told us all the positive stuff McFool has done since his coronation. Because he has only fucked over deputies and others. Suck off Henry.
#3 mills make sure and start another post under your aka different than the start of the one above. You drunk fuck head!
When some of us see Joe in public we will see if he is as
vocal in person as on the keyboard. History says he will not
be, much like his best pal Norman Hurst. Henry like Hurst will
turn and walk away since he doesn’t have immediate
back up. But if Henry decides to be an abberation to the norm
of SBSD courage, it will be duly noted in social media.
Baca is the worst sheriff in la county history. Stupid, incompetent moron.
I enjoyed his speeches at graduations. I’ve always wanted to know what someone on LSD sounded like……….
Well Mr. Mills, Paul lives in San Bernardino County. He would have to live in Los Angeles County to…..
Never mind, I forgot that I was talking to a former SBSO Captain.
Joe Henry, what do you and (NOT) Working JoeBaca have in common?…. u’r (both) retired from public service (THANK GOD).