The Los Angeles district attorney has dropped felony charges against a police officer who secretly recorded his colleagues making racist remarks.
Los Angeles Police Department Officer Daniel Flores was charged in July with 16 felony counts after submitting audio to internal affairs in early 2025. The tapes, recorded within the LAPD’s recruitment division, captured officers making explicit remarks and were first disclosed by the Los Angeles Times.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman had initially charged Flores under California’s decades-old eavesdropping statute, which mandates the consent of all parties present to legally record conversations. The original charges carried a maximum sentence of 13 years in prison.
The charges sparked swift backlash, particularly from Flores’ attorney, Alan Jackson. Speaking to the LA Times in July, Jackson warned that the case communicated that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, you will be the one who ends up in a courtroom. It tells them the safe move is to hear slurs and say nothing.”
The Whistleblower gets in trouble, not the offending LAPD Officers. There is no accountability left in American Police Forces.
Never was
Yep this is pretty similar to all the recordings of LASD officer Mark Furman from the 1980s where he said all kinds of similar things that were later leaked when he was acting as the star witness in the OJ Simpson trial. Police departments have always been a haven for racist, bigoted gang members.
There was once, his name was Chris Dorner.
Can’t corner the dorner! God I miss old 4 chan sometimes (not really but it had its moments)
Got some bad spoilers for you about the series finale.
Rest in power.
And in response to him whistleblowing, his fellow boys in blue barricaded him in a cabin from the outside to prevent any chance of reasonable surrender, and then lit the building on fire and watched him burn alive for amusement until he decided to blow his brains out to avoid one of the most gruesome, painful, and slow deaths possible.
The media and courts didn’t bat an eye at this because extrajudicial murder by arson is just SOP for an agency with actual, legitimately documented organized crime groups in its ranks.
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Look into Serpico, a whistleblowing cop who was set up to be killed by the department back in 1970’s NY. There’s a great movie about the incident starring Al Pacino, too.
What rock have you been living under? It’s not even that there has never been accountability in the “American Police Forces”, there’s never been accountability in any place of power in the US. This is true for a most of the world throughout all of history but since the thread is about the US I chose to reference that specifically.