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LAPD is hemorrhaging officers. Can it retain and hire more?

LAPD is hemorrhaging officers. Can it retain and hire more?

Written by Danielle Chiriguayo, produced by Marcelle Hutchins Apr. 19, 2023 LA Mayor Karen Bass unveiled her first city budget on Tuesday. It includes $1.9 billion for the city’s police department. This comes as the LAPD faces a hiring and retention crisis — the department says it has lost 1,000 officers over the last four years. Bass wants to return…

A Civil Service Memoir

A Civil Service Memoir

by Gregg Reese December 8, 2022 It’s 1980 and timing is everything. Cheryl Dorsey’s daily grind of typing reports for on-going investigations in the secretarial pool at the Department of Justice was interrupted by an offer, in which she would take part in an undercover narcotics “sting operation” as a decoy. Her interest aroused, coupled with the final passage of…

Former police sergeant stresses need to get rid of bad cops

Former police sergeant stresses need to get rid of bad cops

Voters in Minneapolis will vote Tuesday on whether to defund the same police department that was at the center of protests following the May 202 death of George Floyd under an officer’s knee. Former Los Angeles Police Sgt. Cheryl Dorsey, author of “The Confidence Chronicles: The Greatest Story Never Told,” voiced concerns about the legislation in a Monday night conversation…

‘This wasn’t a mistake — it was murder’: Retired cop slams Brooklyn Center police for Daunte Wright shooting

‘This wasn’t a mistake — it was murder’: Retired cop slams Brooklyn Center police for Daunte Wright shooting

A retired cop on Tuesday slammed the Brooklyn Center Police Department for claiming that one of its officers killed Daunte Wright by accident. While appearing on CNN, retired Los Angeles Police Sergeant Cheryl Dorsey reacted with incredulity to the notion that a veteran police officer mistook her handgun for a taser before fatally shooting Wright. “The police chief is being…

Retired police sergeant trashes Trump’s ‘psychobabble’ Rose Garden speech: ‘It changes nothing’

Retired police sergeant trashes Trump’s ‘psychobabble’ Rose Garden speech: ‘It changes nothing’

During an appearance on CNN this Tuesday, retired Los Angeles police sergeant Cheryl Dorsey slammed President Trump’s Rose Garden speech in the wake of his signing of an executive order creating a federal database of police officer accused of using excessive force. “So here’s the deal — more psychobabble from this president,” Dorsey said. “It means nothing for ground pounders,…