Saying the Los Angeles Police Department doesn’t “intend on doing anything different,” Police Chief Charlie Beck issued a sharp rebuke to plans by President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to toughen federal immigration laws and deport millions of people once he takes office, The Los Angeles Times reported Monday. For decades, the LAPD has distanced itself from federal immigration policies. The LAPD prohibits officers from initiating contact with someone solely to determine whether they are in the country legally, mandated by a special order signed by then-chief Daryl Gates in 1979. During Beck’s tenure as chief, the department stopped turning over people arrested for low-level crimes to federal...
