LOS ANGELES— Early Friday morning October 2, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’ Office filed charges against three more Los Angeles Police Department officers, in connection with the ongoing misconduct investigation, previously reported on July 9, involving the falsification of field identification cards by three LAPD officers.
At that time, There were 21 additional officers under investigation related to completion of Field Identification (FI) Cards. Ten officers were assigned to home pending the outcome of the investigation, eight were assigned administrative duties, five remained in the field, and one had retired since the investigation had begun.
The LAPD reported that actions were taken to put safeguards in place to ensure this type of behavior doesn’t happen again. Those actions included retraining of all Metropolitan personnel on the proper completion of a FI Card and random audits of the officer’s body worn video with increased frequency of audits. LAPD reported they had been using a more stringent criteria in the collection and review of information associated with the California Gang Database; LAPD, just prior, had committed to no longer using the database for anything other than removing individuals from it.
Recent subjects charged:
Rene Braga, Booking No. 6023740. Charged with one count of 134 PC-Preparing a False
Document for Evidence and One count of 118.1 PC-Filing a False Police Report. Bail is set at
$20,000.
Julio Garcia, Booking No. 6023712. Charged with one count of 134 PC-Preparing a False
Document for Evidence. Bail is set at $20,000
Raul Uribe, Booking No. 6023730. Charged with one count of 134 PC-Preparing a False
Document for Evidence. Bail is set at $20, 000.
There are 18 officers who are subjects of the Department’s continuing internal investigation. Of those officers, 11 are assigned home, and seven have been assigned to non-field duties.