LA firefighter who visited prostitute among many committing 'egregious wrongdoing' without being fired: investigation
The Los Angeles Fire Department has kept on its staff firefighters who committed domestic violence, solicited a prostitute on duty, and committed a battery on a law enforcement officer, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times.
The LAFD reportedly fired zero firefighters in 2021, which is the most recent year for which data on this was made available. During that time, however, firefighters were found to have committed domestic violence, falsified medical records, and made racially offensive remarks, according to the Times probe.
"One firefighter made off with a Los Angeles Fire Department cellphone last year and used it to solicit a prostitute while on duty. He then abandoned his dispatch post at the department’s downtown communications center, which handles 911 calls, drove to a hotel near Los Angeles International Airport and had sex with her before returning to work," the LA Times wrote in its investigation, noting that the firefighter in question was not fired....