The activists joined Tuesday outside the LAPD headquarters to denounce the policies of the department which allow the sharing of information with the federal agencies, a concern in the repression of immigration of the Trump administration.
In a letter to the Civil Police Commission of the LAPD, several surveillance groups said that the officials of the city officials do not cooperate in the Ring Hollow deportations.
The federal authorities, according to the letter, already have access to the vast mine of information collected by readers of the LAPD license plate, worn out of the body and other monitoring methods.
The frequent collaborations of the police department with the federal police for investigations “means that all the data obtained by LAPD will become accessible to the federal immigration authorities,” wrote the Activist Stop Lapd group and others have written in the letter.
Since President Trump returned to functions, city officials have examined various proposals to protect communities of city immigrants, even in the face of white house threats to retain federal funds.
In December, the mayor of Los Angeles Karen Bass announced that a sanctuary law prohibited city employees and city property from being used to “investigate, quote, stop, hold, transfer or hold a person” for the purposes of the application of immigration.
The activists said they had obtained department reports through requests for public files that highlighted how the interconnected police services are with each other.
As an example, they said, details on a motorist who was arrested by the LAPD – such as their name, the date of birth, the handles of the social media and other biographical details – could be given to intelligence collection offices called the merger centers, which the local police and the federal authorities use to share information on potential threats or terrorist attacks.
In recent years, fusion centers like that of Norwalk have focused more on routine crime.
The ability of the federal authorities to access the information of the LAPD of SAPE centers The city’s promises to protect immigrants, said the spy organizer of LAPD Hamid Khan during a rally before the regular meeting of the Commission on Tuesday.
“And it is not (as) LAPD must drop the phone: it is cooked. It is on the automatic pilot,” said Khan. “The only way it will be a sanctuary city is if the source of information is stopped.”
The LAPD has long promised to protect sensitive information on the people that the police meet. A policy of the department called order special order 40 forbidden to start contact with anyone with the sole purpose of learning its immigration status. Police is also not authorized to arrest only for immigration reasons.
The objective, said officials, is to ensure that victims of crimes, witnesses and others are ready to manifest themselves without fear of being detained and moved from the country.
An exception to restrictions on cooperation with immigration officials has been caused for the police investigating serious offenses, such as violent crimes.
Ron Goche, member of Unión Del Barrio, said he was present during a recent immigration and customs raid in which agents invaded a building in the 400 Bloc of the 41st rue East. He was also present on the scene, he said, a number of LAPD officers.
Goche, whose group seeks to defend the rights of immigrants, allegedly alleged that some of these officers led him when he tried to question the ice agents, who later declared that officials sought a trafficker of alleged human beings.
The ministry said that his officers were there to help direct traffic, not to commit to the extent of the application – an assertion that Gochez has challenged.
“The Los Angeles police service has done the dirty job,” said Gocher.
The file of the chief of the LAPD, the record of the chief of the LAPD, on immigration, faced a meticulous exam since he took over the department last fall.
During his mandate as a sheriff of the County of Los Angeles, who coincided with Trump’s first mandate, McDonnell allowed the federal immigration authorities to operate freely in the largest prison system in the country, targeting persons who had been arrested for expulsion.
McDonnell and some of his supporters said that his administration had only given the most dangerous criminals to the federal authorities, in accordance with the laws.
Public support for immigrants remains 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 Comté de la were born abroad or have at least one immigrant parent, including around 800,000 people without legal status.
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