Opinion: Attorney General Rob Bonta right to investigate the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department
Last week, the California Department of Justice announced it was opening a civil rights investigation into the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department. The department is among the largest sheriff’s departments in California and by extension the United States.
Specifically, the department will investigate whether the sheriff’s department “has engaged in a pattern or practice of unconstitutional policing amid deeply concerning allegations relating to conditions of confinement in its jail facilities, excessive force, and other misconduct.” The announcement comes after a particularly deadly year in the Riverside County jail system. “In 2022, 18 individuals died while incarcerated in Riverside County jails, the highest number for the County in the last 15 years,” noted a Feb. 7 letter from Starting Over Inc., Riverside All of Us or None and the ACLU Southern California.
Among other troubling points, they noted, “In 2019, the RSD had nearly as many fatal shootings by deputies as the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department. Yet, L.A. County has more than four times the number of residents as Riverside.” The department has been plagued with other problems, including a bizarre incident in 2021 when deputies conducted warrantless raids on the two homes of an elderly Lake Elsinore couple which turned up no evidence of a crime. The county settled a federal civil rights lawsuit with the couple in August 2022 for $136,000.
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