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LA Voters to Decide On the Creation of All-Civilian Review Board for Police Disciplinary Hearings

Los Angeles voters will decide Tuesday if they want to create an all-civilian review board for police disciplinary hearings as an alternative to the traditional panel, which consists of two command-level officers and one civilian.

Measure C was placed on the ballot by the Los Angeles City Council and received support from Council President Herb Wesson, Mayor Eric Garcetti and the police union, the Los Angeles Police Protective League. The LAPPL has argued the current system is unfair because of the belief that the police chief has undue influence on sworn members of the board of rights panels.

If the measure passes, an officer facing disciplinary action would be able to choose whether the case would be reviewed by an all-civilian panel or a traditional board with two sworn officers.

The council placed the measure on the ballot in the face of a staff report that found civilians serving on board of rights panels have consistently voted for lighter penalties compared to officers on the panels.

With an increased focus nationwide on police shootings, civil rights leaders have been calling for tougher discipline of officers accused of wrongdoing, and with civilians shown to be more lenient on officers, some civil rights leaders in Los Angeles have come out against the measure.

Despite the report, Wesson expressed faith in civilian panels and said he wanted to see the makeup of the panels change. Many civilian examiners have a legal background, but Wesson expressed a desire for the panels to be made up of regular citizens.

“If statistics and numbers would indicate that there is a certain degree of leniency when people, civilians, citizens are involved, then we need to change the way that we select the citizens,” Wesson said in January.

The Los Angeles Times Editorial Board opposed the measure, writing that “there is precious little evidence that there is anything wrong with the current discipline process, other than that officers and their union don’t like it.”

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