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Somebody with the Los Angeles Police screwed up in a huge way. So huge some are wondering if maybe they were paid or otherwise induced to make the “mistake.” Criminals are laughing hysterically as over 300 undercover cops were forced into hiding their families. Not only that, a whole bunch of ongoing cases are frozen solid.
Police cover blown completely
Washington Post is reporting that “more than 300” undercover cops filed legal claims against the city and Los Angeles Police Department Tuesday. That’s pretty much all of them. They can’t believe “their names and photographs were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online.”
They were supposed to be redacted but somebody missed that. Nobody is saying who specifically is responsible. Hopefully, they are under intense investigation now, themselves.
More than 300 undercover Los Angeles officers have sued both the police department and the city after their personal identities were released online without their permission. @LawCrimeDaily pic.twitter.com/jljk8ZwqFY
— Law&Crime Network (@LawCrimeNetwork) April 6, 2023
Liberal activist group Stop LAPD Spying Coalition got their hands on “more than 9,300 officers’ information and photographs last month in a searchable online database following a public records request by a reporter for progressive news outlet Knock LA.”
They posted them all. Nobody realized that 300 of those were undercover police officers on active cases. Each and every one has a neon target on them now. Their families aren’t safe either.
You can bet the cartels are pouring through those pictures trying to spot the rats. “Hundreds of undercover officers were included in the database, although it’s not clear exactly how many because the database doesn’t specify which officers work undercover.”
None of the police officers were given any advance notice the information would be disclosed. The backlash “has roiled the department.”
Inspector General probe
The department’s inspector general is reportedly “investigating Chief Michel Moore and the agency’s constitutional policing director Liz Rhodes after an officers’ union filed a misconduct complaint.” The city attorney’s office came to the conclusion that “the agency was legally required to turn over the records,” so they did.
Each one “includes a photograph and information on each officer including name, ethnicity, rank, date of hire, badge number and division or bureau.” They weren’t supposed to out the undercover police officers but they did. Everyone admits that “under California law, exemptions are often made for safety or investigative reasons.” Both would apply here.
The activists continue to insist that the data they were handed is a necessity for “countersurveillance” of the Los Angeles Police. Since they oppose law enforcement intelligence-gathering, the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition is collecting their own.
More than 300 undercover Los Angeles police officers filed legal claims against the city and police department Tuesday after their names and photographs were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online. https://t.co/FtfCry0flk
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 5, 2023
A lawyer representing the officers filled in the press. According to attorney Matthew McNicholas, “321 undercover officers filed legal claims, the precursor to a lawsuit, through his office.” There are more “expected to come forward.” Court documents don’t list the names.
The upset officers “allege negligence and seek unspecified damages. The plaintiffs say they can no longer work as undercover officers and, in some cases, may not be able to work in policing altogether going forward.” That’s serious. Heavily undercover police officers “fear for their safety, as well as that of their families, and want to know whether the city will provide protection for them.”
McNicholas is personally “aware of several investigations involving undercover officers, such as cases into gangs, drugs and sex traffickers, that have been stopped in the wake of the disclosure.” The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents the department’s rank-and-file officers filed suit already in a separate action. They’re trying to “claw back” the undercover officers’ photographs and prevent further disclosure. It’s a little too late.