A Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department captain announced her bid Tuesday to replace Sheriff Alex Villanueva.
Capt. Britta Steinbrenner, a 34-year veteran of the department, said she wants the agency to build “new and better policing for a better tomorrow through communication and a badge that means honor in service to our community.”
“There is much work to be done both internally and externally within our department and community,” Steinbrenner said in a statement. “I pledge when elected as L.A. County sheriff to create the change that all residents of LA County deserve.”
She said she has worked through the administrations of five elected sheriffs, and learned to “never compromise my own values of right and wrong and never forget the residents and the community that we serve.”
During her time with the sheriff’s department, Steinbrenner has worked in a variety of roles, including stints in the Emergency Operations, Reserve Forces, Risk Management and Personnel Administration bureaus, along with time on patrol and custody assignments.
Los Angeles Airport Police Chief Cecil Rhambo is also seeking the sheriff’s job. Eliezer Vera, a 32-year sheriff’s department veteran, is also running for the post. Vera had been chief of the agency’s Technology and Support Division, but he was demoted from chief to commander after announcing his campaign to unseat Villanueva. The sheriff’s department defended the move, saying Villanueva has “the right to remove senior-level advisers whose views do not align with his own agenda.”
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Captain says
Retire and enjoy your pension and benefits.
CAP'N LANCASTER says
YES PLEASE RETIRE AN TAKE OLE REX WIT YOU
Fed up says
Another woke Demorat! She should get along fine with the Soros puppet DA!
nopenope says
seek help
Can’t get right. says
@nope nope what makes you think they need help. Because they don’t think like you? Maybe you need help letting people speak for themselves. Sorry that some people want a sheriff and DA that actually believe in the term crime and punishment, not how can we make everyone a victim so they can feel special. Chew on that with your wheat grass.
William says
Hey, Fed up. Quit eating right wing news so much.
You do know that the Republicans are out to destroy this democracy, dontcha? McConnell is willing to collapse the economy by not filibustering the need to raise the debt celing for past debts like the 2016 tax giveaway to the top 1%.
But you knew that? And if you didn’t, your comment above is just worthless petty nonsense. Actually, it was either way. How ’bout that?
Do you belong in the same club as Beecee?
Beecee says
DeStROyiNg oUR dEMocRaCy!!!
Hahaha