Exclusive | LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell slams Nithya Ramans anti-cop message while he touts falling LA crime rate, debunks ICE cooperation claims

LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell has fired back at mayoral candidate Nithya Raman after she attacked him in an interview Tuesday — with the city’s top cop touting LA’s falling crime rate while debunking claims his department has cooperated with ICE.In exclusive comments to The California Post, McDonnell said the socialist mayoral candidate was off-base when she criticized him over everything from the cost of staffing the LAPD to his relationships with the city’s immigrants and ICE operations in Los Angeles.During an interview with ABC 7, Raman said McDonnell “lost the trust of our immigrant community here in LA.”  The biggest news, opinion and culture shaping California right now.Please provide a valid email.

By clicking above you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.Never miss a story “It’s easy to make a broad statement like that,” McDonnell said.

“I would challenge somebody: Is that a handful of activists talking, or is that, you know, a greater feeling of discomfort in the bigger community?”The chief, whose parents immigrated to the US from Ireland in 1950, noted that crime rates are down in LA — something he attributed to strong relationships with all sectors of the community, including immigrants. “We try and work with everybody.

And if they’re not happy with the level of service we’re providing or the way we’re providing it, we try and find out how and why we can make that make that right,” he said.The chief pointed out that most LAPD officers and more than half of the department’s civilian workforce are Hispanic.He added that the LAPD does not cooperate with immigration enforcement, citing department protocols dating back to 1979.“Generalized comments like that of people not being happy or satisfied, I would love to be able to see any data behind that that,” he said.

“Because that’s not the feeling I get in all of my travels or in in my history here in...