Board of Police Commissioners · Held
Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners meeting, September 1, 2026
From official records: The Sept. 1, 2026 agenda of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners (the Police Commission) listed an Inspector General review that found LAPD gang enforcement officers did not consistently follow the department's rules on pretextual stops, consent searches, body camera activation and stop reporting, with seven recommendations (OIG report). The consent agenda had a proposed towing standards manual for official police garages (report) and a reallocation within the $15,650,000 state Organized Retail Theft Prevention grant that cuts the contract budget from $11,866,225 to $3,293,750 and raises the equipment budget from $2,055,119 to $9,253,518 (LAPD report; CF 24-0018). The grant item was listed again on the Sept. 15 and Sept. 22 agendas. Minutes were not posted on the Commission's agenda index as of Oct. 1, 2026, so outcomes are not known.
As of October 2, 2026, outcomes for the September 1, 2026 meeting of the Board of Police Commissioners come from official records posted so far, such as council files, recorded votes and filed statements. Some results may be missing until the full minutes are posted and read.
| Where | John W. Mack Police Commission Hearing Room, 100 W. 1st St. |
|---|---|
| Agenda | Official agenda (posted August 28, 2026) |
- 4A, retail theft grant: An LAPD report dated Aug. 26, 2026 asks the Commission to approve, and send to the Mayor and Council, a reallocation within the $15,650,000 grant from the California Board of State and Community Corrections. The contract budget falls from $11,866,225 to $3,293,750, equipment rises from $2,055,119 to $9,253,518, supplies from $165,563 to $1,033,145 and overtime from $744,087 to $1,262,087. The equipment list includes $3,590,000 for a real time crime center buildout, $2,942,518 for automated license plate reader cameras and $1,800,000 for Drone as First Responder equipment. The report also asks for authority to contract, for up to $500,000, for an “artificial intelligence powered emergency communications platform” (LAPD report, BPC #26-253; CF 24-0018). The item was listed again on the Sept. 15 consent agenda and the Sept. 22 regular agenda.
- 4B, towing manual: An Executive Director’s report dated Aug. 27, 2026 asks the Commission to approve a Towing Operations and Policy Standards manual and distribute it to all official police garages. The report counts 18 garage contractors with about 390 employees; the manual’s four chapters cover rates and charges, Board rules and garage regulations, service delivery standards and operational agreements (report and manual, BPC #26-256).
5B. Inspector General review of Gang Enforcement Detail stops
- What it does: Reviews a sample of Gang Enforcement Detail stops that involved searches, following up on the OIG’s 2019 review, and includes interviews with current and former officers and supervisors (OIG report).
- Findings: The OIG found that officers did not consistently comply with the pretextual stop policy; did not consistently get informed, voluntary consent to search or tell people they could withdraw it; did not consistently turn on body-worn or in-car video; took most reviewed photographs of suspected gang members in ways inconsistent with policy; did not record every detained person in stop data, so detentions were undercounted; and did not consistently offer a business card (OIG report).
- Recommendations: Track and address consent-search noncompliance and update consent-search training; station-level inspections of camera activation; evaluate whether to keep allowing consensual photographs of suspected gang members; set rules for storing and sharing gang photo books; reminders on stop data and business cards (OIG report).
- Coverage: LAist reported that the findings were presented to the Commission on Sept. 1, that LAPD representatives said training has improved and complaints have declined since the 2023 stops in the sample, and that an internal affairs captain told commissioners there were 28 sustained complaints against gang unit officers in 2023 for body camera and search policy violations (LAist, Sept. 3, 2026).
- What’s next: The report asks LAPD to report back to the Commission within 21 days on its plans for the two consent-search recommendations, and says a separate OIG review of the 2022 pretextual stop policy was scheduled for the Commission later in September (OIG report). That review was item 5A on the Sept. 29 agenda.
Every item
| # | Item | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| 4A | Budget modification to the $15,650,000 Organized Retail Theft Prevention grant | On the Sept. 15 and Sept. 22 agendas again |
| 4B | Proposed towing operations and policy standards manual for City towing and official police garages | Not posted yet |
| 5B | Inspector General review of Gang Enforcement Detail stops with recorded searches | Not posted yet |
| 1 | Chief of Police report: incidents Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, crime statistics, staffing | Not posted yet |
| 2 | Executive Director's report | Not posted yet |
| 3 | Public comment | Not posted yet |
| 4C | Accept $20,000 donation for the West Coast Intelligence Conference | Not posted yet |
| 4D | Accept $1,500 donation for the Chaplains Banquet | Not posted yet |
| 5A | LAPD presentation on the history, purpose and impact of Gang Enforcement Details | Not posted yet |
| 6 | Closed session: discipline reviews of an in-custody death, a shooting and two unintentional discharges | Not posted yet |