Civil Litigation
Jul. 31, 2024
Injured woman accuses LA sheriff of outsourcing force to police dogs
The department has "virtually eliminated accountability for force incidents where the instrumentality causing the injury was an LASD find and bite dog," according to the complaint.
A woman mauled by a sheriff department's police dog sued Los Angeles County and former sheriff Alex Villanueva over the agency's "find and bite" canine program. The complaint claims that the sheriff department's dog handlers delegate the use of force to their patrol dogs, knowing that they were unsafe, out of control and not subject to the same levels of accountability as the deputies.
Rosa Veronica Sandra Ramirez claims that sheriff's deputies entered he...
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