The deputies of the scandal-plagued Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department are probably the last public employees I'd pick to spread international goodwill.
Yet that's exactly what happened Thursday morning with the U.S. State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program. The decades-old initiative seeks to spread democracy by bringing in people from across the globe to learn from American institutions and officials.
Photos on social media posted by the sheriff's Community Partnerships Bureau showed employees chatting with a delegation from various African countries, as kids from the local Youth Activity League listened. The topic at hand, per the bureau: "Dissuading radicalization."
