Following the scandals that involved police and members of the public in the Los Angeles Rampart Division (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart_scandal ), LAPD ordered that members of gang units be required to complete financial disclosure forms. The police union and some veteran officers opposed this and the Police Protective League has filed legal challenges that have to date been unsuccessful. What has resulted are vacant positions with gang units that some are blaming on the disclosure requirements.
Financial disclosure forms have been used and are being used by other police departments and federal agencies with seemingly no problems. The L.A. Police Protective League claims the other forms are not as extensive.
Both sides raise legitimate issues. It appears to an outsider that the actions of the veteran officers who are preaching to new recruits about the dangers of disclosure forms raises a multitude of questions. The forms are extensive and require officers to disclose outside income, real estate, stocks and other assets. They also have to report the size of bank accounts and debts, including mortgages and credit cards. And the disclosures apply to any financial holdings a cop shares with family members and business partners.
Read the article and decide for yourself why this is having such an impact on filling open positions.
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