SEATTLE - A week after being selected as the new Los Angeles police chief, Jim McDonnell was publicly sworn in as L.A's top cop. The City Council confirmed McDonnell's appointment in a 11-2 vote despite dozens of people opposing McDonnell's selection due to his record against immigrants and inmates when he served as L.A. County's sheriff.
Between 2014 and 2018, McDonnell served as the sheriff to the most populous county in the United States. During that time, community activists say he failed to improve conditions inside the Men's Central Jail, as well as failing to rid the department of deputy gangs, but most importantly, they say McDonnell handed over undocumented immigrants in jail to federal agents, concretely to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
