The Los Angeles district attorney has dropped felony charges against a police officer who secretly recorded his colleagues making racist remarks.
Los Angeles Police Department Officer Daniel Flores was charged in July with 16 felony counts after submitting audio to internal affairs in early 2025. The tapes, recorded within the LAPD’s recruitment division, captured officers making explicit remarks and were first disclosed by the Los Angeles Times.
District Attorney Nathan Hochman had initially charged Flores under California’s decades-old eavesdropping statute, which mandates the consent of all parties present to legally record conversations. The original charges carried a maximum sentence of 13 years in prison.
The charges sparked swift backlash, particularly from Flores’ attorney, Alan Jackson. Speaking to the LA Times in July, Jackson warned that the case communicated that “if you document bigotry inside the LAPD, you will be the one who ends up in a courtroom. It tells them the safe move is to hear slurs and say nothing.”
The Whistleblower gets in trouble, not the offending LAPD Officers. There is no accountability left in American Police Forces.
Never was
Yep this is pretty similar to all the recordings of LASD officer Mark Furman from the 1980s where he said all kinds of similar things that were later leaked when he was acting as the star witness in the OJ Simpson trial. Police departments have always been a haven for racist, bigoted gang members.
Police departments have always been a
haven forracist, bigoted gangmembers.
There was once, his name was Chris Dorner.
And in response to him whistleblowing, his fellow boys in blue barricaded him in a cabin from the outside to prevent any chance of reasonable surrender, and then lit the building on fire and watched him burn alive for amusement until he decided to blow his brains out to avoid one of the most gruesome, painful, and slow deaths possible.
The media and courts didn’t bat an eye at this because extrajudicial murder by arson is just SOP for an agency with actual, legitimately documented organized crime groups in its ranks.
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What rock have you been living under? It’s not even that there has never been accountability in the “American Police Forces”, there’s never been accountability in any place of power in the US. This is true for a most of the world throughout all of history but since the thread is about the US I chose to reference that specifically.
Hochman stated that his office was “listening to the impact the case was having on potential whistleblowers” when deciding to scale back the charges, acknowledging that the initial prosecution “sent the wrong message” to the public. While describing the comments by the other officers as “hate speech,” the district attorney noted there was insufficient evidence of a hate crime to bring criminal charges against them.
Fuck Hochman. There should never have been charges, and the racist pigs should have been fired. Charging a good faith whistleblower with any crime is vile. Hochman is lawless, fascist scum.
Yeah, he didn’t like the press his efforts were bringing, so he backtracked. If this hadn’t hit the news he’d be happily prosecuting.
The shit-eating fucker is still prosecuting, but as misdemeanors instead of felonies.
Well I feel confident saying that any defense attorney who goes up against them would have a real easy job if I were on the jury. Maybe they can’t be arrested, but holy shit can they become a liability to the force
he maintained that Flores should face consequences for breaking privacy laws. He expressed hope that the decision would encourage future whistleblowers to work alongside prosecutors through authorized channels.
Flores was previously found guilty in a separate internal LAPD inquiry and handed a 22-day suspension without pay
The department also initiated confidential disciplinary proceedings against the officers who made the remarks, but has not confirmed whether any disciplinary action has been enforced.
“We hope this helps more whistleblowers come forward!” says the guy that punished the whistleblower and didn’t do shit to the racist trash. 🙄 🙄 🙄
Additionally this misdemeanor sentence is reliant upon Flores “not breaking the law at any time within the year of his probationary period.” How much you wanna bet these asshole cops absolutely hound this man for anything and everything? 100% they will stalk this man.
This exemplifies the fundamental issue we have with police in the US
Poor behavior by cops isn’t corrected. Anyone holding cops accountable, however, is punished
When good cops sit around letting bad cops do bad things, they all become bad cops. Most officers are unwilling to step in and stop a bad cop due to the culture around policing
One bad apple spoils the bunch. In the police… there are so many bad apples…
This is one of those things that always puts me on the fence about two party states. Like on the one hand I understand why you would want everybody to know they’re being recorded especially on like phone calls, on the other hand these cops definitely wouldn’t have said anything if they knew they were being recorded and then this shit happens.
K… I mean KKK.
