{"id":58826,"date":"2023-07-12T19:51:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T02:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=58826"},"modified":"2023-07-13T15:52:12","modified_gmt":"2023-07-13T22:52:12","slug":"barger-issues-statement-regarding-sheriff-departments-use-of-force-incident-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=58826","title":{"rendered":"Barger Issues Statement Regarding Sheriff Department&#8217;s Use of Force Incident in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger issued the following statement this evening, in response to the Sheriff Department&#8217;s release of a use of force incident that occurred in Palmdale last year.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>\u201cThe video footage is gut wrenching. My heart aches for the children we see in this video, and for their mothers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>In the Antelope Valley, there\u2019s been calls for more accountability and transparency. We\u2019re seeing some of those calls being addressed today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Transparency and accountability starts at the top. I want to commend Sheriff Luna for bringing this incident to light. Although this incident is over a year old, Sheriff Luna moved forward to share the video footage with the community as soon as he learned about it.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>He \u2014 and I \u2014 are committed to constitutional policing. There is no room to tolerate law enforcement practices that do not meet the standards that constitutional policing upholds.\u00a0 I also support accountability measures that will make things better in the long run. Discipling deputies, including firing them, is an immediate but\u00a0<strong>short term<\/strong>\u00a0fix. Investing in training and increased supervision yields long lasting change.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><em>Lastly, to the law enforcement community who will also see this video today and whose work will be judged harshly in the court of public opinion, I want you to know that I value your work. I do not stand for painting the hard work of thousands of deputies with a broad brush. You work under tough conditions. I thank you for striving to do the right thing, everyday.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ca-local"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58827,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58826\/revisions\/58827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}