Major Aja Brown

Compton Leaders Add to Reward for Capture of Gunman Who Shot Deputies

City News Service September 24, 2020

Compton’s City Council is adding $10,000 to a reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the man who ambushed and shot two sheriff’s deputies at a rail station in the city, officials announced today.

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20 Years After Disbanding its Police Department, Compton Leaders and Residents Fed Up with Sheriff’s Take to the Streets

Jasmyne A. Cannick, Special to the SentinelJune 18, 2020

At the time, the $12.3-million contract with the city of Compton was the most expensive among the 41 cities patrolled by the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Led by then-Mayor Omar Bradley, the five-member City council voted 4-to-1 in July 2000 to disband the Compton Police Department in hopes of getting a handle on the high homicide rate that had gripped the city and kept residents indoors in fear of their lives.