The details of LAPD discipline reform should have been worked out months before the ballot deadline, but City Hall has kept wrangling up to the last minute.
In February 2023, Los Angeles City Council members Tim McOsker and Hugo Soto-Martinez proposed updating the police discipline process to permit the chief of police to fire officers and to alter the composition of the Board of Rights — the three-member appeals panel that considers serious discipline.
Things appeared to blow up Friday, as McOsker and representatives of the LAPD and the city attorney’s office argued, sometimes heatedly, in the council’s rules committee over whether the draft language reflects or distorts the council’s intention, and whether it would best provide police accountability for serious misconduct.
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