Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed Lou Calanche, a youth advocate and nonprofit executive from Ramona Gardens, to the city's five-member Police Commission, pending approval by the City Council.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has appointed Lou Calanche, a youth advocate and nonprofit executive from Ramona Gardens, to the city’s five-member Police Commission, pending approval by the City Council.
“She is somebody who knows how to go up to a beat cop and work with her closer and get her to integrate in the community, and she knows how to get a young person headed in the wrong direction to come back” into the community fold and choose a better path, Garcetti said.“What I want is good, committed, smart, experienced human beings — and she is one of them,” he said. “It really takes an exceptional person to step up in this moment.
The civilian Police Commission is responsible for a range of issues involving the Los Angeles Police Department, including shaping policy, approving budget expenditures and reviewing police shootings, operations and special programs.The City Council’s public safety committee is scheduled to take up Calanche’s appointment Tuesday, before the full council considers it.
The virtual Zoom meetings that the commission has held since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic have showcased a deep anger at police among some members of the public, and at times have devolved into personal attacks on the commissioners themselves.Garcetti said Calanche will “bring a perspective of on-the-ground neighborhood activism” to the commission that will help her weather criticism.
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