The retired Long Beach Police Department chief soundly beat incumbent Sheriff Alex Villanueva in the race to lead the country’s largest sheriff’s department.
Luna, the former chief of the Long Beach Police Department, spoke at the Salazar Park gymnasium in East L.A. He called it “my first neighborhood park,” noting that he was born down the street.the 25 injured law enforcement recruits who were struck by a car while on a morning run in Whittier.The people of the county “have entrusted me to keep you and your family safe, and entrusted me in the issue of police accountability,” he said.
Luna said that over the next several months he will be working towards new policies and strategies to address crime, “repair relationships in our community and across the board.” address homelessness, modernize the department, and “improve employee wellness.”Luna promised during the campaign to rid the department of secretive deputy gangs that engage in misconduct. “I will also change LASD’s culture to ensure that gangs do not resurface in the future,” he wrote on LAist’s questionnaire.
“I want to wish the incoming sheriff well,” Villanueva said. “The safety of the community depends on him succeeding.”Luna spent 36 years at the Long Beach Police Department, rising to chief in 2014. He oversaw the department for seven years before retiring a year ago to run for sheriff.Born to a Sinaloan immigrant father and a Modesto-born mother with roots in Michoacán, Luna said “I dreamt of being a police officer from a very early age.
But he said his negative experiences growing up in an area patrolled by the Sheriff’s Department steered him towards wanting to reform law enforcement.
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