Disturbing review of California sheriff’s department finds serious abuses

Investigators found significant problems with every part of the Orange county department's use of force policies and practices

Over the past year, as employees of the scandal-plagued Orange county sheriff's department received their official use-of-force training, independent investigators from the county were sitting in.

Their goal was to identify problems that might lead to unnecessary killings or headline-grabbing cases of law enforcement violence. And, as a new report documents, they found plenty.