LAPD ends protection of former Vice President Kamala Harris amid criticism over diverting cops, sources say

[Zorro]

The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday discontinued its protection for former Vice President Kamala Harris after heavy criticism within its own ranks that officers were being diverted from crime suppression, sources told The Times.

LAPD Metropolitan Division officers had been assisting the California Highway Patrol in protecting Harris and were visible until Saturday morning outside her Brentwood home.

Both California police agencies scrambled this week to protect Harris after President Trump, her rival in November’s election, revoked Harris’s Secret Service protection last week. President Biden had extended that protection for Harris beyond the six months after leaving office that vice presidents traditionally get.

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass had directed the LAPD to provide the security team to assist the CHP in the short term. According to sources, those Metro officers had to be drawn away from crime suppression work in the San Fernando Valley this week.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-09-06/lapd-ends-protection-of-ex-vp-kamala-harris-after-criticism-of-diverting-cops-from-crime-suppression

[RockRaven]

1. Total LAPD staff numbers in the five figures. The idea that aiding CHP is a

meaningful diversion of resources is a laughable lie. The reality is far more like the LAPD would rather harass poor people of color than protect a Democratic woman of color.

Bass is afraid of the LAPD and their relationship with click-bait/headline obsessed corporate media. Note:

after heavy criticism within its own ranks

The next grisly crime in LA would certainly have been attributed to the "diversion from crime suppression" by unnamed department sources.

[ITAL]

3. The LAPD is pretty understaffed

They haven't been able to replace retiring members fast enough. I think they're down over 1000 officers from being fully staffed right now. When she first came into office Bass tried initiating a program to get LAPD up to full levels, but they haven't been able to recruit enough folks. And now with the city running such a deficit there are a lot of staffing freezes.

[orangecrush]

2. Heads should roll

Within the upper ranks.