Officer Jeffrey Smith's comments were captured on body-worn camera by department investigators looking into a shooting in August 2022.
Eight months after The Times revealed racist texts by Torrance police officers, city officials have done little to hold them accountable.LAPD records show that most officers punished for cursing or being rude to a colleague or a civilian are admonished or given an official reprimand. According to the records, which go back to 2020, there have been 29 sustained suspensions meted out to officers for misconduct that included a language-related offense.
Steve Gordon, a retired LAPD SWAT officer, said that while it doesn’t sound pretty, such language is sometimes the only way to get through to some people or signal the seriousness of a situation. Where he draws the line is when an officer’s language drifts into racist slurs or name-calling. The sort of macabre exchanges between officers that flow at crime scenes should not be taken at face value, he said, and can be meant to cope with an often grisly job.
Christina Gliser, a clinical psychologist at Forensic Specialty Group, a psychology consulting firm in Georgia, said that an officer’s attempts to match a suspect’s hostility could just as easily escalate a situation. The LAPD’s Inspector General’s office is conducting a study on officer language use, and the city is partnering with several universities to produce a second, more robust report on the issue, which has been the subject of several studies in recent years by researchers at Stanford and the University of Michigan.
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