A politician with a gun and a badge — that's what L.A. County's sheriff is and has been. And the arrangement of having an elected top lawman has led to some strange situations and outsized personalities since we got our first sheriff in April 1850.
, after which the county had to pay almost $24 million to people who were wrongly arrested and even beaten by deputies in riot gear who waded into the bridal shower at the home of a Samoan American family in the contract city of Cerritos.)The word “sheriff” still summons to mind the untamed frontier and a lone, mythic man with a badge its only civilizing force.
But in the last 60 years or so, the LAPD has eclipsed in fame — and sometimes in notoriety — its senior department. Until Baca resigned in 2014, the sheriff’s succession tenure was so pro forma that it made the House of Windsor look chaotic. Sheriffs served pretty much as long as they pleased, sometimes retiring just before their terms expired to give their preferred successor an inside track as an “incumbent” come election time, often with the wink-and-nod support of the board of supervisors. The result: In the 99 years from 1915, we had only six sheriffs.
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