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Too Much Mr. Nice Guy: How Lee Baca Let Paul Tanaka Run Amok in County Jails

By Gene Maddaus December 13, 2012

Shortly after he was made captain of the Men's Central Jail, Robert Olmsted picked up on a disturbing pattern. Many of the guards had... More >>>

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“You ever see a liberal mom or dad who lets
their kids do everything? That’s what Baca
is,” Robert Olmsted says of Sheriff Lee Baca,
pictured.

Paul Tanaka presides over a Gardena City Council meeting.

The Citizens Comission on Jail Violence found a culture of abuse among Baca's guards.

"A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing." --Lee Baca

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“You ever see a liberal mom or dad who lets
their kids do everything? That’s what Baca
is,” Robert Olmsted says of Sheriff Lee Baca,
pictured.

Ted Soqui

“You ever see a liberal mom or dad who lets their kids do everything? That’s what Baca is,” Robert Olmsted says of Sheriff Lee Baca, pictured.

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