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    LAPD hasn't taken basic measures to prevent suicides in its jails, scathing report says

    by Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times Jun 16, 2018 4 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_The Los Angeles Police Department has not taken basic measures to prevent suicides in its jails, even after more than 100 inmates tried to kill themselves in a five-year span, the department's inspector general found in a scathing report released Friday.

    Two inmates hanged themselves with telephone cords and nearly a dozen attempted to do so before jail officials began to consider installing cordless phones, the report said.

    Many cells lack video cameras that could alert jailers to suicide attempts or other problems, according to the report. At police station "holding tanks," there is no requirement for inmates to be regularly checked on by jail staff. Nor does the department review jail suicides in a

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