Opinion: Sheriff Villanueva is a danger to the people he is sworn to serve
Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva has long been a danger to the people that he is sworn to serve. As the Los Angeles Times editorial board has noted, the extremely dubious investigation he recently launched against two prominent public officials who have criticized him is a sign of just how dangerous he has become—”the type of person against whom the law and the Constitution were intended to protect us.
Sheriff Villanueva ran for office as a reformer, making it a priority to get ICE out of the jails. But once elected, voters soon learned that they had been fooled – Sheriff Villanueva was no reformer. Instead, a rogue Sheriff that has put the County Sheriff’s Department under a dark cloud of shame, scandal, and corruption.
But the range of unacceptable behavior during Villanueva’s time in office and this latest abuse of power points to a larger question facing policymakers: how else do we hold accountable violent, corrupt officials that have been sworn to serve the public? After the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer sparked a national movement calling for accountability and reform, People For the American Way spent two years talking to criminologists, community activists, people in law enforcement, and public officials.
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