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LASD reports improved force metrics to supervisors but monitors and officials warn gaps remain under ROSA
Summary
Assistant Sheriff Paula Tokar told the Board of Supervisors on April 15 that LASD improved compliance with the ROSA settlement and reduced several measures of force, but monitoring teams and supervisors said remaining gaps in accountability and review processes must be closed.
Assistant Sheriff Paula Tokar told the Board of Supervisors on April 15 that the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has increased compliance with the ROSA settlement agreement and reduced some types of force since formal tracking began. The department said it improved compliance from 78 provisions to 81 and reported a long-term decline in overall force incidents and specific declines in serious uses of force.
The presentation included several concrete measures of change: a 35.9% decrease in overall force incidents since 2018 (with a modest uptick in 2024), a 57% decrease in “category 2” uses of force between 2018 and 2024 in basin facilities, and a 60% decrease in tracked head strikes since 2021. Tokar described operational fixes linked to the department’s compliance shortfall on provision 17.5, saying in the meeting, “We will no longer be doing [the] seated position as a recovery position and we will be putting everyone on their side as required…
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