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Blue Ribbon Panel Calls For Independent Oversight Of LA Probation Department

By Frank Stoltze
Published June 12, 2019 07:30 PM
The Los Angeles County Probation Department's administrative offices are located in Downey.
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The Los Angeles County Probation Department's administrative office in Downey.

A blue ribbon panel says L.A. County should create an independent commission to oversee its long-troubled Probation Department. KPCC’s Frank Stoltze discusses what he says would be a significant development.

Frank Stoltze
I came to L.A. as a very young reporter on New Year’s Day, 1991. Two months later, four LAPD officers were caught on videotape beating Rodney King. A year later, the night before the riots/rebellion broke out, I was in the Nickerson Gardens housing project in Watts at an extraordinary rally of rival gangs that had brokered a truce.
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