Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department

At least 13 current and recently retired LASD employees have died by suicide since 2023. One family that's spent years in the department is calling for change.

LASD is experiencing a mental health crisis, evidenced by at least 13 suicides among current and recently retired employees since 2023, with deputies being pushed to work mandatory double or triple shifts.

Deputy Daniel Chavira, 21, was heading home after completing a double shift at the North County Correctional Facility when he was involved in a three-car accident.

Deputy Freddy Flores died months after he was critically injured in a fire and explosion at a mobile shooting range at the Pitchess Detention Center in Oct. 2023.

LASD deputy Trevor Kirk was found guilty of federal civil rights violations after he threw a woman to the ground and pepper sprayed her while on top of her.

The company that makes the test kits recommended the department stop using them in August, but the letter went to someone who didn't work there anymore.

Daniel Everts, a former custody assistant, faces up to eight years in prison for sexually assaulting a female inmate at the Lancaster Sheriff's Station in 2019.

Questions arose about the Idaho Sheriff receiving over $150,000 in disability payments from LA County while working in Idaho.

The LASD said its computer-aided dispatch program — known as the CAD — was “not allowing personnel to log on with the new year, making the CAD inoperable.”

An LA County cop who ditched a domestic violence call to chase down and beat up a transgender man who flipped him off in a drive-by faces up to 10 years in federal prison.