This article was originally published on The Current Report
According to sources inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, stations throughout the county patrolled area have resorted to drastically reducing radio car coverage due to the continuing critical staffing shortages.
LASD stations historically have required minimum daily staffing levels established to provide a safety net for personnel working the streets to ensure officer safety.
These required staffing levels have never varied…until now.
One station in particular recently “busted” a total of five cars on a single shift, translating to five less radio cars patrolling the area on that particular day leaving the communities they service increasingly at risk.
At Sheriff Luna’s year-in-review briefing, he acknowledged that the huge burden of continuing to work under these draconian conditions could be a factor in a string of suicides in November, 2023, yet he continues to allow these conditions to continue.
