Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva claimed bias in think tank RAND Corporation’s report—regarding gang-like cliques in the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department (LASD)—at a Sept. 22 press conference. Villanueva criticized the study’s methodology since the county board of supervisors appointed the individuals that participated in the focus group who may have a personal bias against the sheriff’s department. “The process of gathering information, well, that’s kind of comical, in a sense, because it taints the entire product, if that’s what you’re drawing it from,” Villanueva said during the press conference. “If they drew randomly from the public at large it’s one thing. But if they’re drawing it from people who already have a huge bias against the department. Well, that skews the results.” This year, the RAND Corporation published a 230-page independent research report to help the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors understand and examine the subgroups within the LASD. The data was collected from 141 community …
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