Not your father's LAPD
Hailing the end of federal oversight of the LAPD, city officials promised Monday there will be no backsliding on the reforms implemented under an 8-year consent decree. Daily News.
"This is an historic day," Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said at a City Hall news conference. "This is no longer your father's LAPD."
Negotiated in 2002 in the wake of the Rampart Division corruption scandal, the consent decree mandated hundreds of changes in the operation of the Los Angeles Police Department and the training and performance of its officers.
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