“At the core of these failures is a culture of dishonesty and lack of accountability: supervisors don’t hold line staff accountable for excessive use of force, which … should result in mandatory discipline, and command staff don’t hold supervisors accountable for rubber stamping the policy violations and dishonest reporting,” said an email from ACLU attorney Peter Eliasberg. The ACLU seeks to expand a 2014 agreement imposed to settle a federal lawsuit - an agreement that the ACLU says the Sheriff’s Department continues to violate.Īccording to the motion, a panel established to monitor the agreement plan has found the Sheriff’s Department repeatedly failed to address the overuse of dangerous head strikes as well as to hold line employees and supervisors accountable for dishonest reporting about the excessive use of force.
Pregerson also asks that the Sheriff’s Department adopt a “zero tolerance” policy for deputies who lie about using excessive force on inmates or fail to report it and supervisors who turn a blind eye to the abuses. The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California is seeking a federal court order barring Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies from striking jail inmates in the head except for rare instances that require deadly force.Ī motion filed Wednesday, May 31, before U.S.
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