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Other police departments across the country have robust rules for carrying firearms while drinking alcohol or when intoxicated.

But the LAPD’s rules remain vague even as serious cases pile up.

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In a 2019 incident that resurfaced recently in state court, an LAPD detective who’d been drinking with subordinates for hours in downtown bars allegedly shot a homeless man on skid row before being badly beaten himself.
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In a 2020 case, an LAPD officer who’d been drinking while shooting targets with two fellow cops at a campsite imagined they were under attack and allegedly shot one of his friends.

He later claimed the shooting was a result of his PTSD, not the alcohol.
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Early one morning last month, an off-duty LAPD officer allegedly threatened to kill his cousin and another man with a handgun in Inglewood before being arrested by local police, prosecutors said.
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Days later, LAPD Chief Michel Moore told the civilian Police Commission that the incident troubled him “a great deal,” in part because the officer was allegedly “significantly” impaired by alcohol at the time.
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Subscribers get early access to this story about how the LAPD’s lack of an explicit policy puts it at odds with other law enforcement agencies in the region and country.latimes.com/california/sto…