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Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
Law enforcement agency in California, United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD), officially the County of Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, is a law enforcement agency serving Los Angeles County, California. LASD is the largest sheriff's department in the United States and the third largest local police agency in the United States, following the New York Police Department, and the Chicago Police Department. LASD has approximately 18,000 employees, 9,915 sworn deputies and 9,244 unsworn members.[4] It is sometimes confused with the similarly-named but separate Los Angeles Police Department which provides law enforcement services within the city of Los Angeles, which is the county seat of Los Angeles County, although both departments have their headquarters in downtown Los Angeles.
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Common name | Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department |
Abbreviation | LASD |
Motto | "A Tradition of Service" |
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Formed | 1850; 174 years ago (1850)[1] |
Employees | 20,159 (2015)[2] |
Annual budget | US$3,303,110,000 (2019)[3] |
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Operations jurisdiction | Los Angeles County, California, United States |
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Size | 4,083 square miles (10,575 km2) |
Population | 10,116,705 |
Legal jurisdiction | As per operations jurisdiction |
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Headquarters | 211 West Temple Street Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Deputies | 10,915 sworn deputies (2015) |
Unsworn members | 9,244 unsworn members (2015) |
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Operations Divisions | 4
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Areas | 23
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The department's three main responsibilities are to provide municipal police services within Los Angeles County, courthouse security for the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, and housing and transportation services of inmates within the county jail system. The LASD provides municipal police services to the unincorporated communities and 42 of the 88 cities within Los Angeles County.[5] In addition to its primary responsibilities, LASD contracts with the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Metrolink.
The LASD has a history of racial profiling, police brutality, police corruption, and other misconduct.[6][7][8] From the 1970s to today, numerous gangs have been known to operate within the LASD.[9][10][11]