![]() ![]() ![]() It’s hard to know what Fire Chief Kristin Crowley thinks of all this. The result, the critics lament, is a warped and deeply rooted culture that resists reform. They point first to the department’s leaders, but also fault City Hall politicians who they say are afraid to alienate the two unions that represent firefighters and are valued from their campaign cash and election endorsements. Some of them only blew the whistle anonymously because they fear retaliation, another longstanding complaint about the LAFD.Ĭritics inside and outside the department say there is plenty of blame to go around. The firefighters who tipped me off about the bad apples in their ranks are among those most outraged by the lack of serious consequences. Many other firefighters who the department determined behaved horribly escaped with reprimands or brief suspensions or faced no discipline at all. Neither did one who admitted to abandoning his post in the 911 dispatch center to have sex with a prostitute while on duty. Not much has changed in the past few years, as my latest story on the LAFD’s disciplinary system - published Thursday - makes clear.Īccording to the department’s own internal records, LAFD investigators found that firefighters had physically abused women made racially offensive comments embraced on social media a group that civil rights organizations say promotes white nationalism and other forms of hate drove drunk and battered a cop and falsified medical reports on 911 calls.Īnd none of those firefighters got fired.
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