reimagine public safety

Proponents of the proposed public safety charter argue that undoing a fifty-year-old charter amendment would correct the history of systemic racism and brutality from the city's police department. 

The second incident came just a day after filing a lawsuit against LAPD for its disproportionate response to an initial "swatting" incident last August.  

A grassroots campaign to change the way the city administers public safety won a victory last week, successfully adding a question to the ballot for upcoming municipal elections regarding whether to replace the existing police department with a Department of Public Safety.