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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

"LASD" redirects here. For other uses, see LASD (disambiguation).

County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department
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Common nameLos Angeles County Sheriff's Department
AbbreviationLASD
Motto"A Tradition of Service"
Agency overview
Formed1850 (1850)[1]
Employees20,159 (2015)[2]
Annual budgetUS$3,303,110,000 (2019)[3]
Jurisdictional structure
Operations jurisdictionLos Angeles County, California, United States
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's jurisdiction
Size4,083 square miles (10,575 km2)
Population10,116,705
Legal jurisdictionAs per operations jurisdiction
General nature
Operational structure
Headquarters211 West Temple Street
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Deputies10,915 sworn deputies (2015)
Unsworn members9,244 unsworn members (2015)
Agency executives
  • Robert Luna, Sheriff
  • April Tardy, Undersheriff
  • Myron Johnson, Assistant Sheriff
  • Paula Tokar, Assistant Sheriff
  • Holly Francisco, Assistant Sheriff
  • Jill Torres, Assistant Sheriff
Operations Divisions
4
  • Administrative Services
  • Countywide Operations
  • Custody Operations
  • Patrol Operations
Facilities
Areas
23
  • Altadena
  • Avalon
  • Carson
  • Century
  • Cerritos
  • Compton
  • Crescenta Valley
  • East Los Angeles
  • Industry
  • Bellflower/Lakewood
  • Lancaster
  • Lomita
  • Malibu/Lost Hills
  • Marina Del Rey
  • Norwalk
  • Palmdale
  • Pico Rivera
  • San Dimas
  • Santa Clarita Valley
  • South Los Angeles
  • Temple
  • Walnut/Diamond Bar
  • West Hollywood
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California. LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the third largest local police agency in the United States, following the New York Police Department, and the Chicago Police Department. LASD has approximately 18,000 employees, 9,915 sworn deputies and 9,244 unsworn members.[4] It is sometimes confused with the similarly-named but separate Los Angeles Police Department which provides law enforcement services within the city of Los Angeles, which is the county seat of Los Angeles County, although both departments have their headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.

The department's three main responsibilities are to provide municipal police services within Los Angeles County, courthouse security for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and housing and transportation services of inmates within the county jail system. The LASD provides municipal police services to the unincorporated communities and 42 of the 88 cities within Los Angeles County.[5] In addition to its primary responsibilities, LASD contracts with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metrolink.

The LASD has a history of racial profiling, police brutality, police corruption, and other misconduct.[6][7][8] From the 1970s to today, numerous gangs have been known to operate within the LASD.[9][10][11]

  1. ^ "The Los Angeles Police Department: Then and Now". Los Angeles Police Museum. Archived from the original on December 17, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2014.
  2. ^ "Los Angeles County Annual Report". Los Angeles County. Archived from the original on September 18, 2016. Retrieved September 13, 2016.
  3. ^ "Recommended Budget Los Angeles County 2020-2021" (PDF). Los Angeles County Chief Executive Office. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 22, 2020. Retrieved June 7, 2020.
  4. ^ "About Us". Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Archived from the original on July 30, 2018. Retrieved July 30, 2018.
  5. ^ "About Us". Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Archived from the original on March 29, 2022. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  6. ^ Lau, Maya (May 24, 2018). "Must Reads: Sheriff McDonnell inherited a department rotted by corruption. His reform effort is a work in progress". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on May 4, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  7. ^ Levin, Sam (January 22, 2021). "California opens civil rights inquiry into LA county sheriff's department". The Guardian. Archived from the original on May 6, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  8. ^ Levin, Sam (July 1, 2020). "Los Angeles sheriff's department faces a reckoning after another police shooting". The Guardian. Archived from the original on May 5, 2021. Retrieved April 5, 2021.
  9. ^ Tchekmedyian, Alene (September 16, 2021). "L.A. County sheriff has legal power to ban gang-like groups of deputies, county lawyers say". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  10. ^ Peterson, Samuel; Barnes-Proby, Dionne; Bouskill, Kathryn E.; Davis, Lois M.; Mizel, Matthew L.; Weidmer, Beverly A.; Leamon, Isabel; Mendoza-Graf, Alexandra; Strawn, Matt; Snoke, Joshua; Goode, Thomas Edward (September 10, 2021). Understanding Subgroups Within the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department: Community and Department Perceptions with Recommendations for Change (Report). RAND Corporation. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2021.
  11. ^ "The Gangs of L.A." National Review. September 26, 2021. Archived from the original on October 24, 2021. Retrieved October 24, 2021.

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