Former Sheriff Jim McDonnell

Jim McDonnell Named Next Chief of Los Angeles Police Department

Former Los Angeles Police Department Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell, who also spent four years as county sheriff, was named on Oct. 4 as the next chief of the LAPD, taking over a department that will deal with major security issues in the coming years as the region hosts the Olympics, a Super Bowl and the World Cup.

Sheriff Signals Policy Changes, Watchdogs Worry

The data around the use of force is complicated because new reporting policies were instituted in 2013, which county officials have long said created a spike in reporting that wasn’t reflective of a jump in actual force incidents. On top of that, mismatched systems for reporting different kinds of force and violence have created inconsistencies and unreliability in the numbers over time.