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Blogs
March 12, 2013
No More Jails Coalition Says New Women's Jail is Sheriff Lee Baca's Latest 'Boondoggle'
The Los Angeles chapter of No More Jails Coalition is taking it to the streets today, telling L.A. County supervisors Zev Yaroslavsky, Mark Ridley-Thomas, Gloria Molina, Don Knabe, and Mike Antonovich that the plan for embattled Sheriff Lee Baca to build a new women's jail is a crazy way to spend mi ... More >>
Blogs
February 26, 2013
Lee Baca Named America's 'Sheriff Of The Year' Despite Jail Violence
In a middle finger to all those journalists and civil libertarians in town who have accused the L.A. County Sheriff's Department of allowing unjust beatings of jail inmates to persist during the last decade or so, the National Sheriffs Association has named Lee Baca its Sheriff of the Year. Baca ha ... More >>
News
February 14, 2013
Sheriff Lee Baca and the Gun-Gift Connection
In a middle finger to all those journalists and civil libertarians in town who have accused the L.A. County Sheriff's Department of allowing unjust beatings of jail inmates to persist during the last decade or so, the National Sheriffs Association has named Lee Baca its Sheriff of the Year. Baca ha ... More >>
Blogs
February 14, 2013
Who's Packing Heat In L.A. County? Sheriff Lee Baca's Gun Permit List Includes Many Personal Friends
In this week's print edition, the L.A. Weekly takes a look at Sheriff Lee Baca's habit of issuing concealed weapons permits to personal friends and benefactors.Baca is known in gun rights circles for being stingy with concealed weapons permits. As of last year, only 341 people had them in L.A. Count ... More >>
News
December 20, 2012
Readers Take on the Sheriff, Our Theater Critics -- and Our Treatment of Kristen Stewart
In this week's print edition, the L.A. Weekly takes a look at Sheriff Lee Baca's habit of issuing concealed weapons permits to personal friends and benefactors.Baca is known in gun rights circles for being stingy with concealed weapons permits. As of last year, only 341 people had them in L.A. Count ... More >>
News
December 13, 2012
Too Much Mr. Nice Guy: How Lee Baca Let Paul Tanaka Run Amok in County Jails
How did progressive L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca end up running some of the nation's most violent jails? By letting Paul Tanaka do whatever he wants.
Blogs
December 13, 2012
Why Did Sheriff Lee Baca Want To Keep Fathers Who Molest Their Daughters Out Of Jail?
Sheriff Lee Baca has a reputation as a compassionate intellectual, which makes it hard to understand how he could run a brutal jail system. This week's L.A. Weekly cover story attempts to make sense of that disconnect by getting inside his unusual mind.To do that, the Weekly tracked down Baca's doct ... More >>
Blogs
October 10, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Leaves America at Peak of Jails Turmoil
How big are Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's balls, you ask? Well, as he's been turned and grilled like a 10-piece special at Pollo Loco over his non-leadership when it comes to a decade's worth of inmate beatings at the hands of deputies inside the county jail system, Baca decided to, in the absolute hea ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca, Undersheriff Paul Tanaka Slammed For Jail Violence
We call him the Teflon Sheriff because, despite more than a decade's worth of serious problems inside the L.A. jail system, woes that include gang-like cliques of tatted-up deputies, you keep electing Lee Baca as the county's top cop. Nothing seems to stick. Well, that might have changed today:
Blogs
September 24, 2012
L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca Spent Over One Month Outside L.A. Amid Horrific 2012 Jail Scandal
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa isn't the only local politician leaving his municipal duties in the dust, these days, in pursuit of a higher political calling. A records request run by diligent county-watcher Eric Preven earlier this summer shows that L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca -- who we l ... More >>
Blogs
September 7, 2012
Paul Tanaka, Sheriff's No. 2, Encouraged His Cops to Work on 'Edge' of Law -- Report
See also: *Men's County Jail Visitor Viciously Beaten by Guards. L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca says he didn't know his deputies were allegedly beating inmates (and even visitors) at the jail facilities he's supposed to be overseeing. Findings from the Citizens' Commission on Jail Violence unleashed ... More >>
Blogs
August 9, 2012
L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca Writes Angry Letter to NorCal Assemblyman Who Authored Pro-Immigrant TRUST Act
As L.A. City Hall and the LAPD lean further and further left on immigration policy -- following in the footsteps of the DREAMy, Latino-friendly state Legislature -- the L.A. County Sheriff has yanked even harder to the right. Compared to his liberal peers, "Teflon" Sheriff Lee Baca is turning into ... More >>
Blogs
April 24, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Sued For Blocking Records of Slain Journalist Ruben Salazar
The death of journalist Ruben Salazar at the hands of an L.A. County Sheriff's deputy in 1970 became a rallying point for the Chicano movement and inspired the first organization for Hispanic journalists in the United States -- CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California, where this reporter serves as a ... More >>
Blogs
February 21, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Broke Law When He Appeared in Uniform to Endorse Carmen Trutanich for D.A.
We call Lee Baca the Teflon Sheriff because, after years of allegations of inmate abuse at the hands of his deputies, you keep electing him. Nothing seems to stick. To be fair Baca is a high-level leader, and you can't always blame every deputy's action on the boss. (And Baca's never been much of a ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2012
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's Latest Problem: Sgt. Timothy Cooper, Who's Alleged to Have Pointed Gun at Fellow Lawman
As if Sheriff Lee Baca needs more stress (not that he ever appears to feel it), reports today have outed a sheriff's sergeant alleged to have pointed a gun at a fellow law enforcer while on-duty. Stupid b-movies about crime fighters almost always seem to feature a locker-room / squad room scene in ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
L.A. Sheriff's Department Shake-up? Rumors That Sheriff Lee Baca Has Demoted Paul Tanaka, Sketchy Undersheriff
Could L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca finally be turning the Sheriff's Department on its head, in an effort to save whatever scraps of reputation he has left after a year of beaten inmates, ACLU lawsuits, deputies gone rogue and a horrendously botched probe into Miramonte Elementary's alleged sex monst ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2012
Miramonte Parents Scared L.A. Sheriff Will Deport Them -- Turning Sex-Scandal Probe Into Immigration Debate
As if they don't have enough to worry about.No matter the hot L.A. news item, it always seems to turn into an immigration debate. And that should come as no surprise: Rough estimates have placed close to 1 million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County. And whenever law enforcement or pres ... More >>
News
December 22, 2011
Stupidest Things Said by Los Angeles Civic Figures in 2011
As if they don't have enough to worry about.No matter the hot L.A. news item, it always seems to turn into an immigration debate. And that should come as no surprise: Rough estimates have placed close to 1 million illegal immigrants in Los Angeles County. And whenever law enforcement or pres ... More >>
Blogs
December 15, 2011
Is 'Teflon' L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca the Next Sheriff Joe Arpaio?
A scowl worthy of Sheriff Joe?Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has become the posterboy of tough, rogue immigration policing in the age of Bush/Obama. (And don't think for a second that conditions have improved for America's huddled masses under the "HOPE" banner of the latter. In fact, the ... More >>
Blogs
December 13, 2011
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's Inmates Should go Home Instead of Building $1 Billion Replacement For Men's Central Jail, ACLU Says
David MarklandThe Teflon Sheriff.Lee Baca's L.A. County Jail system, the largest in the nation, has been a large shop of horrors according to those inmates and even visitors who accuse deputies of beating them unnecessarily. Now Baca is proposing to tear down Men's Central Jail and start ove ... More >>
Blogs
December 9, 2011
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Has a Shadow Leader in Paul Tanaka, Report Says: Jail Beating Problems Lead Back to Him?
LASD / WitnessLATanaka.The decade-long accusations of unjust inmate beatings by deputies at the L.A. County Jail has only recently caught the attention of the man we call the Teflon Sheriff, Lee Baca. We had our doubts when the elected lawman said he really didn't know what was going on in t ... More >>
Blogs
December 5, 2011
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's Jail Officials Didn't Report Allegedly Serious Inmate Assaults by Deputies to D.A.
888bailbondIf you thought that cops have a different justice system than the rest of us, that they can be, indeed, above the law when faced with serious allegations of their own, this story might prove you right. The Los Angeles Times reported today that despite serious allegations of assaul ... More >>
Blogs
November 29, 2011
Judge Blocks L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca's Attempt to Conceal Deportation Stats, ICE Correspondence
The immigrants rights crowd in Los Angeles may be about to hit a Sarah Palin-sized jackpot of possibly inane, possibly explosive correspondence between the L.A. County Sheriff's Department and immigration feds. Sheriff Lee Baca, head of the department -- largest of its kind in the country -- initia ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca's Inmate Beatings Problem Puts Him in Hot Seat as County Commission on Jail Violence Meets
David MarklandLee Baca.We call him the Teflon Sheriff because despite a decade's worth of allegations that deputies sometimes allegedly beat L.A. County Jail inmates (and visitors) for no good reason, Lee Baca keeps getting reelected by you, the people. Well, that nonstick coating will be pu ... More >>
Blogs
November 15, 2011
Teflon Sheriff Lee Baca Can Now Decide Inmate Sentences: D.A. Steve Cooley Concerned About More Bad Guys on L.A. Streets
D.A. Steve Cooley is not liking 'realignment.'If you think Sheriff Lee Baca's L.A. County Jails are a mess now, what with years'-old allegations of deputies beating inmates and a reported system of problem cops being assigned to lockup duty, just wait. You see, under California's inmate-redu ... More >>
Blogs
October 31, 2011
Lee Baca's Top Sheriff's Department Brass Had Issued Warnings About Deputies Beating Inmates
David MarklandLee Baca, under fire.Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca claimed recently he wasn't aware of the inmate-beating issues at his jails, even though they've been generating headlines since the late 1990s. Over the weekend the Los Angeles Times pulled that excuse out from under him. ... More >>
Blogs
October 18, 2011
Lee Baca's Embattled County Jail to Get Citizens Oversight Under L.A. County Board of Supervisors Plan
David MarklandLee Baca will be policed by you.After years of investigating its own deputies and often, it would appear, sweeping accusations of widespread jailhouse beatings under the rug, Sheriff Lee Baca's department will likely have the pleasure of being combed through by civilians. The L ... More >>
Blogs
October 14, 2011
Lee Baca's Bad Month Gets Worse: L.A. Sheriff's Deputies 'Detained,' Investigated Following Off-Duty Shots Fired in Park After-Hours
MetroYou might call this a bad month for L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca. He's a Teflon law enforcer who's been popular with the voters who repeatedly elected him. But something says these latest allegations -- that deputies beat County Jail inmates, that they tuned-up County Jail visitors, and ... More >>
Blogs
October 13, 2011
Deputies Made up Good Excuses, Got Away With Beatings in Lee Baca's Jails -- Report
"County."If Sheriff Lee Baca thought the controversy over L.A. County Jail inmate beatings at the hands of his deputies was going to go away quietly, he better think again. Yesterday we told you how Baca, for the first time, it seems, struck a conciliatory tone by saying he would meet with t ... More >>
Blogs
October 12, 2011
Lee Baca Bends, Says He'll Meet With ACLU Over Accusations of Deputies Beating Jailhouse Inmates
Lee Baca.Strange days when L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca does an about face and starts mumbling about cooperating with the ACLU. On KCRW (89.9 FM) show "Which Way L.A." last night Baca said he would meet with the ACLU regarding allegations that his deputies have regularly beaten inmates over ... More >>
Blogs
September 28, 2011
Lee Baca is The Only Person in Town Who Hasn't Seen Deputies Beat Inmates, Apparently
Turns out pretty much the only person in town who hasn't witnessed deputies beating inmates at L.A. County Jail is Sheriff Lee Baca, who has his attention focused on a cop who smuggled a cellphone into the lockup for FBI agents investigating said beat-downs. Maybe he should spend some time there. ... More >>
Blogs
September 26, 2011
Lee Baca, L.A. County Sheriff, Pissed That FBI Smuggled Cellphone Into His Jail: Shouldn't he be Worried About Inmate Beatings?
Baca has his eye on the bull.L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca is pissed off at the FBI for reportedly smuggling a cellphone into County Jail so that an inmate could spy on deputies' controversial treatment of men behind bars. You would think that Baca would be more concerned that his deputies' b ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
L.A. Latinos Sue Sheriff Lee Baca for Failing to Reveal Internal 'Secure Communities' Correspondance With ICE
Sheriff Baca just got sued.Updated after the jump: The Sheriff's Department says this is ICE's problem, not theirs. This should be an interesting lawsuit -- not only for the future of immigration reform, but for frustrated journalists who repeatedly get their California Public Records Act re ... More >>
News
June 2, 2011
Abuse at L.A. County Jails
Sheriff Baca just got sued.Updated after the jump: The Sheriff's Department says this is ICE's problem, not theirs. This should be an interesting lawsuit -- not only for the future of immigration reform, but for frustrated journalists who repeatedly get their California Public Records Act re ... More >>
Blogs
March 10, 2011
L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca Defends Muslims in U.S. Capitol: Since 9/11, 65 Percent of Terrorist Attackers Have Been Non-Muslim
L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca: Terrorists come in all colors but red, white 'n' blueUpdate: One Muslim leader in L.A. says the FBI has failed to build trust with possible informants in every way Baca has succeeded. We're proud to call L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca our own today, as he does both Los A ... More >>
Blogs
October 15, 2010
Lee Baca: Meg Whitman Doesn't Know What She's Talking About When It Comes To Jerry Brown And Crime
Lee BacaMeg Whitman launched an attack ad on Thursday accusing Jerry Brown of being soft on crime. At today's press conference on Prop. 19, L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca fired back, saying Whitman "doesn't know what she's talking about."Brown has touted Baca's endorsement in pushing back against the Whit ... More >>
Blogs
October 6, 2010
Sheriff Lee Baca Boasts About Booting Illegal Immigrants From Los Angeles County Jails
Over the last four years Sheriff Lee Baca has helped to turn over 21,000 inmates to federal immigration authorities. And he's proud of it. While the LAPD has long had a controversial don't-ask policy when it comes to dealing with potential undocumented immigrants on the street, the Los Angel ... More >>
Blogs
September 2, 2010
Harold Yong Park, Suspect In West Hollywood Triple Murder, Confessed, Says Sheriff's Official
A Los Angeles County Sheriff's official this week said a man alleged to have killed three others in West Hollywood over four or five pounds of marijuana confessed to the slayings. The triple homicide Thursday night at a North Kings Road apartment was described as a drug deal gone bad. Sheriff's Lt. ... More >>
Blogs
June 23, 2010
LA Sheriff's Department Has Alcohol Issues; Lee Baca Vows To Crack Down
Sheriff Lee Baca,A week after we reported that Los Angeles police Chief Charlie Beck expressed some concern about alcohol abuse among some L.A. cops, a county of L.A. report indicates that the Sheriff's Department has its own booze issue to contend with. The county's Office of Independent Re ... More >>
Blogs
May 19, 2010
Congressman Who Tangled With Sheriff Baca Resigns
Sheriff Lee Baca.The Indiana congressman who tangled with Sheriff Lee Baca in March -- he questioned the lawman's ties to an Islamic group -- has resigned after it was revealed that he had an affair with a female aide. Republican Rep. Mark Souder said he had "sinned against God, my wife and ... More >>
Blogs
July 7, 2009
U.S. Grant to Speed Cops' DNA Logjam
Cal State L.A. announced today it will receive a $1 million federal grant to help clear the backlog of DNA samples that have been stored for pending rape cases. That's a bit of good news following Sheriff Lee Baca's recent declaration that the budget crunch will force his department to halt the head ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2009
Here They Come: Court Orders Prisoners Released
A special panel of three federal judges ruled this afternoon that California must begin releasing tens of thousands of prisoners in order to alleviate overcrowding."The judges," reports the Associated Press, "say no other solution will improve conditions so poor that inmates die regularly of suicide ... More >>
News
June 14, 2007
Baca's Law
Federal suit claims Baca hasn�t been nearly as nice to those who dare challenge him as he was to Paris Hilton
News
May 25, 2006
We Endorse
L.A. Weekly�s choices for June 6
News
October 2, 2003
Zen and the Art of Sheriffing
Lee Baca�s Khaki Revolution
News
December 9, 1999
MOVIN' ON UP
How Lee Baca bought a $750,000 house with no money down
News
September 30, 1999
Baca's Debacle
Sheriff Lee Baca Relied Heavily on two Controversial Campaign Supporters to Set up His Asian Crime Task Force. Now Both Men Have Drawn FBI Scrutiny, and the New Sheriff's Reputation is on the Line
News
September 9, 1999
Baca Goes Green
Sheriff pushes medical marijuana
News
December 10, 1998
The High Cost of Bias
Gender gap persists at Sheriff�s Department
News
June 18, 1998
They're Off!
Brace yourselves for an actual sheriff's race
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