Lee Baca
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"Leroy David "Lee" Baca" was the Sheriff of Los Angeles County, California.

Baca was elected Los Angeles County's 30th sheriff against his mentor Sherman Block, who had died in office days prior to the election but remained on the ballot. He was sworn in on December 7, 1998.

He was re-elected to a fourth term in 2010. He has been criticized for proposing a half-percent sales tax increase in 2004 to hire more deputy sheriffs, placing friends on the payroll, taking of gifts and for releasing inmates from the Los Angeles County Jail.

On January 7, 2014 Baca announced that he would retire at the end of January 2014 before the expiration of his term.

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What are we going to do, take him to Long Beach or Pasadena?

And I'm not going to do anything to make it easy for a person who willfully violates policy.

We're going to look at every aspect of this shooting, we're going to examine the intensity of what occurred, we're going to examine our policy, and we're going to again learn from this there is no such thing as a safe shooting anywhere in urban America.

(The suspect) had been circling the block for about four hours, in a strange manner, ... American Morning.

Sherman Block was a giant in the law enforcement family. His dedication and commitment to his profession was unparalleled.

He should have just let them pull him over and do their investigation and we would not have any of this.

If you screw up and violate policy.