Six Los Angeles County juvenile detention officers were charged with assault and child abuse on Friday for using pepper spray on several teenage girls last year.
The investigators also raised concerns about what they saw as a punitive culture inside the nation’s largest juvenile probation operation, which includes more than 7,000 youths under community supervision and an average of 900 held in halls or camps.that the use of pepper spray increased from 294 incidents in 2015 to 747 incidents in 2017 — a jump of 154%. More recent data showed usage began to level off in 2018.
“It totally validates our concern about the use of pepper spray in our halls,” Supervisor Sheila Kuehl said of the charges against the six juvenile detention officers. “This kind of egregious behavior has to be charged, and I was not surprised given that these few people had gone beyond what was allowed with pepper spray.”
Payroll records show that the officers arrested had worked for the department for several years. Harrison, the lone male charged, is a supervising detention officer.Chief Probation Officer Terri L. McDonald said the investigation at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall was launched by her agency.
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