The Los Angeles district attorney has dropped felony charges against a police officer who secretly recorded his colleagues making racist remarks.
Los Angeles Police Department Officer Daniel Flores was charged in July with 16 felony counts after submitting audio to internal affairs in early 2025. The tapes, recorded within the LAPD's recruitment division, captured officers making explicit remarks and were first disclosed by the Los Angeles Times.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman had initially charged Flores under California's decades-old eavesdropping statute, which mandates the consent of all parties present to legally record conversations. The original charges carried a maximum sentence of 13 years in prison.
The charges sparked swift backlash, particularly from Flores' attorney, Alan Jackson. Speaking to the LA Times in July, Jackson warned that the case communicated that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, you will be the one who ends up in a courtroom. It tells them the safe move is to hear slurs and say nothing.”
Now that I think about it, maybe you just aren't understanding how broad of a category "fix the police" is.
"Execute all existing cops and start again with a completely different set of people with a completely different set of rules" is an idea that would fall under the umbrella of "fix the police".
The reason that laws truely exist is because there's someone to enforce them. "Police" is just the term used for whoever is doing that enforcement, whatever form it takes.
Don't get too hung up on the rape part. I just used that as an example of a law that we can all agree needs to exist. If I said "theft", there would be the added complication of whether or not that law should even exist in the first place.