LOS ANGELES — Two members of the Los Angeles City Council called Friday for an overhaul of the Police Department's disciplinary process, one that would enhance the police chief's power to fire officers and scale back the involvement of civilians in disciplinary hearings.
The proposal, authored by Council members Tim McOsker and Hugo Soto-Martinez, would eliminate the department's practice of allowing civilians to fill all three seats on a Board of Rights, a panel that reviews LAPD disciplinary cases and then renders a decision.
Both men said that system, created as part of the 2017 ballot measure known as Charter Amendment C, has been more lenient toward officers than the more traditional disciplinary panels, which featured one civilian and two LAPD command officers.
