Heading the office will be former U.S. Attorney Eileen Decker.
Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna announced on Wednesday, Feb. 15 that his department will create what he hopes will be a solution to decades of gangs and violent policing in the department he took over last November – the Office of Constitutional Policing.
In a news conference, Luna explained that the motivation to create the department came out of a desire to create more trust and accountability, which he said will in turn reduce crime. The department will collaborate with the Undersheriff, the Civilian Oversight Commission and the Inspector General to address decades of allegations of inhumane conditions in“The reality is that this department faces multiple challenges,” Luna told reporters.
Director Eileen Decker, who was appointed by Luna to head the new department, also co-chaired Luna’s transition team. A previous U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California, covering LA and six other counties, she also sat on the Los Angeles Police Commission and was a lecturer at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
“There will be a team of people – attorneys, investigators, auditors, compliance individuals, all involved in these efforts,” Decker said. “We will be working in unison for the entire department, as opposed to a piecemeal approach.” One of the new office’s significant goals will be to bring the entire department into compliance with a litany of consent decrees and settlement agreements that critics said have gone ignored for many years. Previous LA County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, whom Luna replaced,
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