The Los Angeles Police Commission named former FBI agent Erroll Southers as its a new president, picking a career law enforcement official whom critics have questioned for his past ties to a controversial counterterrorism program.
The Los Angeles Police Commission named a new president this week, picking an FBI agent turned university security director and professor to lead the civilian agency charged with oversight of the LAPD.
Southers said he has continued to be outspoken about what he views as flaws in CVE programs and pointed to relationships he has forged with those who’ve been affected. Khan scoffed at the suggestion that Southers’ familiarity with police work will make him more effective, saying that in the months since he joined the board he rarely seemed to press police officials.Among his backers, Southers has a reputation of being thoughtful, decisive and a straight shooter. He is currently the associate senior vice president of safety and risk assurance for USC, overseeing the university’s police, fire and environmental health agencies.
Shields’ background as a former federal drug prosecutor, Briggs said, afforded her “intimate knowledge that crime has on our institutions.” Since joining the commission this spring she has become an advocate “for diversity and inclusiveness,” and had taken an interest in addressing recruitment, bias in police operations and use of force, he said.
Its members will also play a role in picking a successor to Chief Michel Moore. Moore said when he was appointed for a second five-year term that hebefore turning the department over to a new chief ahead of the Olympics.
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