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Plan to overhaul LAPD officer discipline system faces last-minute collapse at City Council

LAPD Headquarters on 1st St. in downtown Los Angeles, in 2020.

LOS ANGELES — With a deadline for submitting ballot measures looming, the Los Angeles City Council remains divided over the language for a proposal that could give the chief of police the power to fire officers outright for serious misconduct, among other reforms.

Some city officials support a plan that would give the chief authority to terminate an officer for sexual misconduct, fraud, excessive force, abuse on duty, and other violations covered by a state law, SB 2, which

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