On April 17, 2015, California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a statewide program of anti-bias training for law enforcement officers. In a settlement, the two women shot by police received $4.2 million from the City of Los Angeles Beck described the shooting "a tragic misinterpretation" by police working under "incredible tension." Even though a commission found that the eight officers violated department policy, none were suspended or fired Beck chose to allow the shooting officers to return to duty after undergoing additional training. īeck and California Attorney General Kamala Harris celebrate the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Civil Rights Act of 1964ĭuring the 2013 manhunt of Christopher Dorner, eight Los Angeles police officers fired 103 rounds at two innocent women who were delivering newspapers one woman, a 71-year-old, was shot twice in the back, and the other woman was injured by broken glass. According to the Los Angeles Times, Beck was paid a salary of $297,000 in 2011. Beck was appointed Chief of Police in November 2009. Beck went on to become Chief of Detectives, and implemented a number changes to the Detective Bureau, particularly in the use of technology (for which the Detective Bureau has overall responsibility for the entire LAPD). Upon that promotion, he assumed command of Operations-South Bureau. In August 2006, he achieved the rank of deputy chief, the same rank that his father, a retired Los Angeles police officer, had attained. He was promoted to lieutenant in April 1993 and to captain in July 1999 (following that promotion he was initially assigned to Southeast Division, followed by terms as the Commanding Officer of Juvenile Division, Central Area and finally Rampart Area), and then commander in April 2005. Beck worked in the Department's Internal Affairs division as a sergeant and a lieutenant. program under then-chief, Daryl Gates, in the 1980s and early 1990s. After promotion to sergeant in June 1984, Beck worked in the Department's C.R.A.S.H. As a patrol officer, his assignments included both the Rampart and Hollywood divisions. Career īeck was appointed to the Los Angeles Police Department in March 1977 after serving two years with the Los Angeles Police Reserve Corps. His father, George, was also an LAPD policeman, retiring at the rank of deputy chief in 1980. He attended Mayfair High School in Lakewood, California, and then the California State University, Long Beach where he received a B.A. Early life and education īeck is a native of Long Beach, California. After his retirement he rejoined the Reserve Corps as a Reserve Police Officer and is assigned to the Office Of The Chief Of Police. On April 15, 2020, Beck stepped down and was replaced by former Dallas Police Department Chief David Brown, who had been nominated by Lightfoot to serve as permanent Superintendent. Beck took the helm of the Chicago Police Department on Decemafter Johnson was fired. He agreed to be interim Superintendent of Police in Chicago in late 2019 while the city searches nationwide for a replacement for retiring Eddie Johnson. A veteran of the department with over four decades as an officer, he is known for commanding and rehabilitating the Rampart Division after the Rampart scandal and for technology enhancements during his time as Chief of Detectives. Charles Lloyd Beck (born June 27, 1953) is a retired police officer, formerly serving as the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and subsequently as the Superintendent of the Chicago Police Department.
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