Notes from the March 18, 2025 Police Commission Meeting

•    Commissioners Ordin, Mack, and Skobin attended the retirement party of Deputy Chief Gary Brennan, a 34-year Department veteran, on March 14, 2008.

•    There are currently 418 recruits in the Academy.

•    The March 24, 2008, meeting of the Public Safety Committee has the issue of the Department’s in-car video cameras on its agenda.

•    The Department’s verbal presentation and discussion by Deputy Chief Charlie Beck and Detective Jeff Godown, relative to the current crime statistics, including the increase in homicides, was accepted.

•    The Department’s verbal presentation and discussion by Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell, relative to the status of the “Rampart Revisited” implementation plan and the “Blueprint for 21st Century Policing,” was accepted.

•    The Office of the Inspector General’s verbal presentation and discussion by Andre Birotte, on the status of their review of the MacArthur Park incident investigation, was accepted.

•    The Department’s reports, dated January 25, 2008, and March 12, 2008, in response to Public Safety Committee, relative to the repair and maintenance issues involving Los Angeles Police Department’s Harley-Davidson motorcycles, were accepted as follows: the January 25, 2008, report was received and filed; the March 12, 2008, report was approved and transmitted to the Public Safety Committee.

•    The Department’s report, dated September 26, 2007, and the Office of the Inspector General’s report, dated March 6, 2008, relative to the Gang Enforcement Detail Work Product Assessment Summary, Fiscal Year 2007/2008, pursuant to the Annual Audit Plan, were both approved.

Comments

[Jim Reed]

With the pending budget crisis that is facing the City of Los Angeles, the Commission should approach the Federal Government and have them pay not only the cost of the Consent Decree compliance but also the cost of the in car cameras.

[b&wop;]

This just in:

" A $5.47 million contract to install video cameras inside 300 Los Angeles Police Department squad cars was approved on a 3-1 vote today by the Los Angeles City Council's Public Safety Committee."

Great!!! How about using the $5.47 million to deal with a MAJOR officer safety issue first???

Radios that WORK!!!!

Never mind. I seems that whatever the Consent Decree wants gets first dibs, regardless if officer safety is an issue or not.

[Wyatt Earp]

How do you expect John Mack to catch Officer wrongdoing without cameras?

[Knuckles]

$18,000 each per camera? Seems a bit high to me. Is this the lowest bidder? Did someone get greased?