There is debate about LAPD Chief Michel Moore’s commitment to community policing as he seeks a second five-year term.
Soboroff pushed back at the chief’s critics. Moore has “instilled in this department” the importance of two “critical areas” — community policing and de-escalation when it comes to the use of force, Soboroff said. “There isn’t anyone in America that’s better suited for the LAPD than Mike Moore.”
“After significant departures of senior staff members over the last few years, it is critically important for me to continue the development and building of a succession plan,” Moore wrote to the commission in asking for reappointment. An independent commission found the LAPD was ill-prepared and in disarray during the protests — that its officers did not know how to use less-than-lethal projectiles against crowds, used excessive force against peaceful protesters, and unlawfully detained thousands of people. Commanders were afraid to make decisions amid Moore’s micromanagement, and when they did they often made bad ones, according to the report.
Rice accuses Moore of being lukewarm on shifting the department to a new model of policing and criticizes him for contemplating eliminating the department’s flagship Community Safety Partnership program. It focuses on relationships and problem-solving and not arrests.
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