The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is not facing a staffing shortage. It’s enduring a historic collapse—and under Sheriff Robert Luna’s so-called leadership, the numbers are more damning than ever. This week,
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As Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna struggles to hold together a department in freefall, one name keeps surfacing behind the scenes: Chief Joe Mendoza. Recently promoted to oversee the Detective Division,
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On May 10, the same politicians who fumbled Malibu into chaos – Mayor Doug Stewart, Mikke Pierson, Karen Farrer, Paul Grisanti, and Lou La Monte—will gather at a private estate to raise
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Voters, be aware—or better yet, BEWARE. L.A. County Sheriff Robert “Bunker Bob” Luna is asking for another shot to finish what he started: wrecking the largest sheriff’s department in the nation like
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On March 19, 2025, The Current Report received information from multiple sources that Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) experienced a catastrophic failure of its 911 emergency call system when the VESTA
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Okay, let’s recap a few things: Deputies are being forced to work insane amounts of overtime. They are working back-to-back-to-back double shifts. They are being drafted to come into work on their
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“For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of the horse the rider was lost; and for want of the
More“Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed, and things go badly wrong.” – Alan S. Kesselheim Recently, I heard someone voice the opinion that
MoreIn a landmark verdict on Thursday, February 6, 2025, a federal jury convicted a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Deputy of using excessive force, marking a pivotal moment in the ongoing national debate
More“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail.” – Benjamin Franklin On December 31st, 2024, between eight and ten PM, the LASD’s Computer Assisted Dispatch system (CAD) began to fail.
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