Petition Filed to Decertify Undersheriff for Alleged Perjury After ‘Deputy Gangs’ Testimony

Commentary This week, a petition was filed with the California Commission for Peace Officers Standards and Training with the intent to decertify the second most powerful law enforcement officer in Los Angeles County, according to the Los Angeles Times. The petition filed by attorney Alan Romero alleges Undersheriff April Tardy perjured herself on the stand while testifying in a civil trial in May 2023. At a Civilian Oversight Commission (COC) hearing in 2022, Ms. Tardy, then a chief, testified acknowledging the transfer of a deputy subgroup “shotcaller” who ordered a “work slowdown” at the Compton station, reported the L.A. Times. A year later, Ms. Tardy was called to testify in a civil trial as a witness and denied that deputy gang activity existed at the station, allegedly contradicting her earlier sworn testimony at the COC hearing in 2022....