{"id":15359,"date":"2014-01-07T19:48:35","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:48:35","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2014-01-07T19:48:35","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T19:48:35","slug":"la-sheriff-lee-baca-to-step-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/07\/la-sheriff-lee-baca-to-step-down\/","title":{"rendered":"LA Sheriff Lee Baca to Step Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/neontommy\/5403439417\/player\/0c5caccf76\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Long-time sheriff had been facing scrutiny, tough reelection battle<\/i><\/p>\n<p>By Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The Baca family may not be as powerful as they once were, what with their number of offices held <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_Negrete_McLeod\">dwindling<\/a>. But Sheriff Lee Baca was still something of an institution in Los Angeles County. However, he has been under increasing scrutiny over the past year, and it seems he&#8217;s finally had enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, who faced a tough battle for reelection amid scandals in the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, plans to annouce his retirement, law enforcement sources told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Baca&#8217;s decision comes a month after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 18 current and former sheriff&#8217;s deputies accused of beating jail inmates and visitors, trying to intimidate an FBI agent and other crimes following an investigation of corruption inside the nation&#8217;s largest jail system.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sheriff-baca-plans-to-retire-source-say-20140106,0,2296941.story#ixzz2pjvgC7Ih\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s supposed to be announcing this, well, about now, but the speculation is that he will step down at the end of the month, well before his term ends. &nbsp;A number of candidates were already in the race, and more may enter with his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Check the flip for a KTLA video on the story.<\/p>\n<p><script type='text\/javascript' src='http:\/\/CBSLA.images.worldnow.com\/interface\/js\/WNVideo.js?rnd=183605;hostDomain=video.losangeles.cbslocal.com;playerWidth=620;playerHeight=349;isShowIcon=true;clipId=9703638;flvUri=;partnerclipid=;adTag=News;advertisingZone=CBS.LA%252Fworldnowplayer;enableAds=true;landingPage=;islandingPageoverride=false;playerType=STANDARD_EMBEDDEDscript;controlsType=overlay'><\/script><a href=\"http:\/\/video.losangeles.cbslocal.com\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/neontommy\/5403439417\/player\/0c5caccf76\" height=\"240\" width=\"320\" align=right frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen><\/iframe><i>Long-time sheriff had been facing scrutiny, tough reelection battle<\/i><\/p>\n<p>By Brian Leubitz<\/p>\n<p>The Baca family may not be as powerful as they once were, what with their number of offices held <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gloria_Negrete_McLeod\">dwindling<\/a>. But Sheriff Lee Baca was still something of an institution in Los Angeles County. However, he has been under increasing scrutiny over the past year, and it seems he&#8217;s finally had enough.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>L.A. County Sheriff Lee Baca, who faced a tough battle for reelection amid scandals in the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department, plans to annouce his retirement, law enforcement sources told The Times.<\/p>\n<p>Baca&#8217;s decision comes a month after federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 18 current and former sheriff&#8217;s deputies accused of beating jail inmates and visitors, trying to intimidate an FBI agent and other crimes following an investigation of corruption inside the nation&#8217;s largest jail system.(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-sheriff-baca-plans-to-retire-source-say-20140106,0,2296941.story#ixzz2pjvgC7Ih\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s supposed to be announcing this, well, about now, but the speculation is that he will step down at the end of the month, well before his term ends. &nbsp;A number of candidates were already in the race, and more may enter with his resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Check the flip for a KTLA video on the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[11293],"class_list":["post-15359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-11293"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-3ZJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}