By Jack Leonard and Robert Faturechi
Los Angeles Times
LOS ANGELES — The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Wednesday, accusing Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department brass of failing to root out deputy brutality inside the county’s jails.
The lawsuit details multiple allegations of inmate abuse and alleges Sheriff Lee Baca and his top executives are “aware of the culture of deputy violence that pervades the Jails but have failed to take reasonable measures to remedy the problem.” The ACLU is a court-appointed monitor of jailhouse conditions.
Accusations of deputy brutality in the jails have been common for years but are difficult to substantiate without more evidence. The FBI is investigating allegations of abuse and other deputy misconduct inside the jails.
The ACLU lawsuit aims to get the Sheriff’s Department to provide better training for deputies to prevent force, more thorough investigation of force incidents and appropriate discipline of misconduct.
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