La County Sheriffs Dept. history

In the year 1853, the all-volunteer based Los Angeles Rangers were formed, and it was very much specific to Los Angeles, USA, only and thus to assist the LASD. The organisation was soon succeeded by the Los Angeles City Guards, which was another volunteer group.

One of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department "Night Squads," 1925.

There was no real standardized sheriff’s uniform until 1933, when the department adopted a green shirt and trousers, bow tie and a cap.

In 1967, the Board of Supervisors ordered a study into the “senseless and costly duplication and overlapping of services” between the Sheriff’s Department and the LAPD. Maybe the two departments should merge?

Maybe they remember that very expensive fracas from 1989, after which the county had to pay almost $24 million to people who were wrongly arrested and even beaten by deputies in riot gear who waded into the bridal shower at the home of a Samoan American family in the contract city of Cerritos.)

In 1998, Baca was sworn in after the first of his four elections as sheriff.

In the year 2007, popular actor Jackie Chan had joined the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department in their own current recruiting campaign.

In the year 2013, the organisation had faced controversy regarding its jail system, as the Men’s Central Jail and the Twin Towers Correctional Facility were ranked as the two of the ten worst prisons in the USA. The headquarters of the company is based in 211 W Temple Street.

Until Baca resigned in 2014, the sheriff’s succession tenure was so pro forma that it made the House of Windsor look chaotic.