In 2013 the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) fielded 3,195 reports of suspected child abuse. The agency chose not to investigate 1,456 cases, nearly half of all the reports it received that year.
The numbers come from an April 2014 letter sent from Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey to Long Beach Police Chief Jim McDonnell, who is also a candidate for Los Angeles Sheriff.
“When you have agencies not even responding to suspected child abuse reports and closing them without an investigation, it is mind boggling,” said Dan Scott, a former sergeant in the Sheriff’s Department and commissioner on the county’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Child Protection. “Long Beach is a prime example and it ought to be exposed. Not only because McDonell is running, but because this is Long Beach PD, it is not just some Podunk department.”
Among the county’s 46 law enforcement agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department and the Sheriff’s Department, Long Beach stood out for the sheer proportion of child abuse reports it chose not to investigate, according to letters sent to every agency chief from the DA’s office and shared withThe Chronicle of Social Change.
New “Explosive” Figures on Law Enforcement Response to Child Abuse in LA County
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