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söndag, oktober 30, 2011

Sheriff's staff raised red flags about jail brutality 2 years ago

Los Angeles Times
Oct. 29, 2011
9:24 p.m.
Nearly two years before Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca acknowledged that jailer brutality was a problem, his command staff raised alarms about excessive force used on inmates in the nation's largest jail system, according to confidential memos reviewed by The Times.
The documents contain disturbing evidence of misconduct in the jails, including cases in which deputies used unnecessary force then escaped punishment because of shoddy investigations by supervisors

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