The activists recovered outside the LAPD headquarters on Tuesday to the policies of the Department of Deutce that allow to share information with federal agencies, a concern amid the repression of immigration of the Trump administration.
In letter For the LAPD Civil Police Commission, several surveillance groups said public guarantees of city officials that it will not cooperate in Hollow deportations.
Federal authorities, according to the letter, already have access to the fasting of the information collected by LAPD registration readers, used cameras and other surveillance methods.
The frequent collaborations of the Police Department with the Federal Police on the investigations “means that any obline data will be accessible to federal immigration authorities,” the activist group stops LAPD Spety.
Since President Trump returned to office, city officials have Considered different proposals To protect the immigrant communities of the city, only before the White House threats to retain federal funds.
In December, the mayor of Los Angeles, Karen Bass, announced a sanctuary law that prohibits the employees of the city and the property of the city to be used to “investigate, quote, judge, retain, transfer or stop anyone” with the purpose of the application of immigration.
The activists said they obtained reports from the department through requests from public records that shed light on how interconnected police departments are together.
As an example, they said, the details about a motorist that has been arrested by the LAPD, such as its name, date of birth, social media handles and other biographical details, could be delivered to the intelligence collection offices called Fusion Centers, which the Local Police and federal authorities use to share information about possible threats or terrorist attacks.
In recent years, fusion centers such as Norwalk have focused more on routine Street crime.
The ability of federal authorities to access the LAPD information of the city’s promises centers to protect immigrants, said Stop Spy organizer LapD Hamid Khan in a demonstration before the regular meeting of the commission.
“And it is not [like] LAPD has to lift the phone: it is baked. He is in the autopilot, “Khan said.” The only way in which it will be a sanctuary city is whether the source of information stops. “
The LAPD has long promised to protect confidential information about people with which the officers are. A department policy called Special Order 40 prohibits initiating contact with any person with the sole purpose of learning their immigration status. The police cannot judge only for immigration reasons.
The objective has said that the objective is to ensure that the victims of crime, witnesses and others are willing to present themselves without fear of being arrested and eliminated from the country.
An exception to cooperation restrictions with immigration officials has been carved in the application of the law that investigates serious crimes, such as violent crimes.
Ron Gochez, a member of the neighborhood union, said he was present in a Recent reduction in customs and customs compliance In which the agents swarmed an apartment building in the block 400 of EAST 41st Street. Also present at the scene, he said, they were number officers or LAPD.
Gochez, whose group seeks to defend the rights of immigrants, claimed that some of those officers dragged him when he tried to question ICE agents, who later said they were looking for a suspended people trafficker.
The department has said that its officers were there to help direct traffic, not to participate in the execution action, a claim that Gochez played.
“The Los Angeles Police Department did the dirty job,” said Gochez.
LAPD Jim McDonnell’s Chief Immigration record He has faced a renewed scrutiny since the department touched the past fall.
Duration of his mandate as Sheriff of the Los Angeles County, which coincided with Trump’s first mandate, McDonnell allowed federal immigration authorities to operate freely in the largest prison system in the country, aimed at people who had been arrested for deportation.
McDonnell and some of its supporters have said that the Administration gave only the most dangerous criminals to the federal authorities, in accordance with the laws.
Public support for immigrants is still strong in California, which has More immigrants than any other state. According to the USC Equity Research Institute, more than 60% of the 10 million residents of the County of the Son born abroad or have at least one immigrant father, including approximately 800,000 people without legal status.
