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Los Angeles County Sheriff Robert Luna is being called on to both restore the Sheriff's Department and transform it. Those two missions are at odds.
As advocates and academics question the impact of flights over neighborhoods, police departments lack persuasive evidence of choppers' crime-fighting effectiveness.
A ballot measure that would give the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors the authority to remove a publicly elected sheriff from office for cause was being strongly supported by voters Tuesday evening.
Los Angeles County voters will decide today whether the Board of Supervisors should be granted the authority to remove a publicly elected sheriff from office for cause.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors wants voters to give them the power to overthrow a sheriff that the public chose to elect, "for cause." If approved by voters on Nov. 8, the measure would give the board the power to remove a sheriff on a four-fifths vote of the five-member panel.