LAPD Pulling Out Of LAX Narcotics Task Force As It Works To Boost Patrols
LAPPL News Watch
December 20, 2018
The Los Angeles Police Department is ending its decades-long participation in a narcotics task force at Los Angeles International Airport as part of an effort to deploy more officers on regular patrols, officials said Wednesday.
The task force has been involved in some of the city's biggest drug smuggling busts, including one that led to Monday's conviction of a Pasadena man who used couriers to hide heroin and cocaine in luggage on flights.
The task force is also credited with the 2017 arrest of two men who were charged with attempting to smuggle a half-million dollars worth of heroin in suitcases, and the arrests of three baggage handlers who pleaded guilty this year to smuggling cocaine through the airport.
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California Transformed Its Justice System. But Now Crime Is Up, And Critics Want Rollbacks
Over the last decade, California has led the nation in reducing its prison population. The state has shortened sentences and diverted some offenders to the counties for incarceration and supervision, transforming California’s criminal justice system into what supporters hope will become a humane model around the country.
But amid the changes, crime has increased in recent years, sparking debate about the causes and giving ammunition to those leading a new effort to roll back some of the reforms.
An analysis by the Marshall Project and the Los Angeles Times found that California’s crime rates remain near historic lows, but overall crime spiked in both 2012 and 2015, the years that immediately followed two major statewide measures aimed at decreasing the number of people in prison.
EDITOR’S NOTE: And now Trump is celebrating a new federal criminal justice ‘reform’ bill that will let more criminals loose on the streets.
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