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> US military force needs to take control of the department

This is martial law. Los Angeles doesn't need martial law. What you're describing is the DoJ's job.

No idea of how it works in US Police, but over here a cop would rarely raise a finger, or testify against another cop, save for exceptional cases, and evidence often isn't enough. That otherwise wonderful thing called esprit de corps went clearly too far, becoming in some circles more akin to Mafia's code of silence. That's why might be worth leaving out other cops.

That's referred to as the "blue wall of silence" in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_wall_of_silence

> might be worth leaving out other cops

DoJ aren’t cops. (FBI are cops.)

The OIG, ATF, DEA, Marshal Service, and the FBI all agencies within the DoJ, though the FBI has always had signfiicant levels of autonomy within the DoJ compared to the others

Sure, but when one says DoJ it doesn’t refer to the FBI or DEA. (At least in no lawmaking circles I’ve been party to.)

The status quo is also martial law. Bringing in the Army is an extreme plan and probably a bad idea, but some guys in suits flying in from D.C. to give a powerpoint about police accountability will absolutely not solve this either.

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