What’s your experience with the LAPD (Los Angeles Police Department) and LASD (Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department)? Not looking for a civics lecture. I just want to hear about your experiences.
If you’ve dealt with both (or even just), how did it actually go? Response time, attitude, follow-through, the little stuff that never makes the news.
I’ve had decent experiences with both. The problem isn’t “LAPD vs Sheriff.” It’s that politicians have turned a lot of policing into wait-until-something-already-happened work. They pushed a lot of these officers toward reactive work instead of proactive policing.
That wrecks response, follow-through & morale.
Never really had to deal with either agency, which I guess is a good thing.
The one time I did, I filed a report with LASD after a construction worker stole something. They looked into it, then came back and said they couldn’t find him at the address they had and didn’t know where he lived. That was pretty much the end of it.
I respect both agencies and I am glad that we have them.
I honestly don’t see that much of a difference. The LAPD seems a bit more formal and policy-heavy. The LASD seems to be more blunt and less polished. You can tell that during traffic stops. I wouldn’t want to mess with either of them.
Yeah, that’s because LASD deputies usually start in the jails before patrol and I feel each station has a slightly different vibe. They have special jail-operations training and get used to a lot of stuff. I wouldn’t want to mess with them either.
The LAPD is more formal, more paperwork. LAPD rookie’s go straight to patrolling after academy. That’s why new deputies seem less experienced sometimes.
I don’t have much of an experience with any of them. I want to keep it that way. One thing is obvious though, the sheriff is elected and harder to put under the same city-style commission LAPD has. There is more talk about deputy gangs/cliques, cover-ups etc..
The LAPD had years of court-ordered reform after each “scandal”. Sometimes way too much of it.
I feel it’s mostly geography. City = LAPD. A lot of the county / contract cities = Sheriff. I’ve had fine and mid experiences with both because I am a landlord. The consistent part is you wait, you tell the story twice, and then you become a case number. Very LA.
This sums it up nicely. We are all just case numbers. It’s nothing personal. I don’t think they are that different. I still have trust in both.
That’s exactly why I’d rather not mess with LASD than LAPD. It’s not because I think one is “the good guy.”
As you said, LASD deputies spend years in the jails before a lot of them ever hit patrol. That job hardens people. Some stations are mellow. Some are not. The sheriff is elected, so the temperature of the whole department can change with one election, oversight has always been a challenge.
I don’t know much of the LAPD or LASD. We got the Inglewood Police Department (IPD). Feels smaller, you get used to faces. Crime in Inglewood is way down from the ’90s, that changes the job and tone. Call, shift, the person who shows up.. still matter more than the patch. That’s my take.
Right. Each agency has some bad apples. Most of them are good people. Your luck decides who you deal with.