La county arrest records professional#

La county arrest records professional#

The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which was founded in 1850, was the first professional police force in the Los Angeles area.

Main article: History of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department From the 1970s to today, numerous gangs have been known to operate within the LASD. The LASD has a history of racial profiling, police brutality, police corruption, and other misconduct. LASD provides services, such as crime laboratories, homicide investigations, and academy training, to smaller law enforcement agencies within the county and across the State of California. In addition to its primary responsibilities, LASD contracts with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metrolink, provides law enforcement services to ten community colleges, and patrols county parks, golf courses, special event venues, lakes, hospitals, and county facilities. The LASD provides municipal police services to the unincorporated communities and 42 of the 88 cities within Los Angeles County. The department's three main responsibilities are to provide municipal police services within Los Angeles County, courthouse security for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and housing and transportation services of inmates within the county jail system. It is sometimes confused with the unrelated Los Angeles Police Department which provides law enforcement service within the city of Los Angeles, which is the county seat of Los Angeles County.

LASD has approximately 18,000 employees, 9,915 sworn deputies and 9,244 unsworn members. LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the fourth largest local police agency in the United States, following the New York Police Department, the Chicago Police Department and the Los Angeles Police Department. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department ( LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California.