From: NBC Los Angeles
Insiders say there was a cover-up inside the city of LA, over a porn movie in which two on-duty LA traffic officers make appearances.
NBC4 LA broke the story about the scandalous movie last Friday, and since then managers from inside the Parking Enforcement Bureau have come forward to speak exclusively with us, on the condition that their identities were protected. Those insiders say superiors knew months ago that two officers appeared in a porn movie while on-duty, a violation of city policy, but didn’t discipline them because they didn’t want the story to go public.
“The culture of discipline is very lax,” in LA Parking Enforcement, said one high-level manager.
Three managers told NBC4 LA that officers who violate city policy are rarely disciplined.
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“We’ve had officers that have been caught with prostitutes on the job and off, and their discipline has been pretty much non-existent,” one of those insiders said.
And, that’s the case, they all say, with this latest incident involving the porn movie. As NBC4 LA reported last week, two LA traffic officers appeared in a hardcore porn movie, in uniform. In one scene, one of the officers fondles the breasts of a porn actress and spanks her behind. Another officer apparently allows the actress to get in his official parking enforcement car to shoot lewd scenes.
“Yes, that’s misconduct,” Parking Enforcement Chief Jimmy Price told NBC4 LA last week, referring to the officer’s participation in the movie.
But Price didn’t discipline the officers, when he authored an internal memo in February, telling his superiors about photos of the officers on “an inappropriate website.” When NBC4 LA asked Price why he didn’t discipline them, he responded, “We weren’t able to positively identify the individuals as employees.”
“That’s hogwash,” one of our insiders said, about Price’s contention that he didn’t know the identity of the officers.
Three insiders said at least 10 Parking Enforcement managers had seen the porn movie months ago, and knew the identity of the officers.
“It was common knowledge definitely, to upper management,” one manager said.
Price’s office didn’t directly respond to our request for a comment about the insider’s assertions.
The officers allegedly in the movie and their bosses will soon be questioned about the incident, because the LA Department of Personnel and the City Attorney are now doing a “full-scale investigation.” Both officers are on paid leave, pending the outcome of the investigation.
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