After 5-year project, LA County commission backs dramatic police reforms

The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations released a report five years in the making Monday that calls for dramatic reforms to the county’s police departments, including ending qualified immunity and establishing an independent prosecutor to handle police misconduct cases.
Though the commission’s project began in 2015 during the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots, many of the recommendations mirror the reforms protesters have demanded locally and nationally in the weeks s