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Today in Los Angeles, it's the day after election day.

Ballots across the county are being tallied up in one of the most watched police races in the United States,

the campaign for sheriff of Los Angeles County.

Incumbent sheriff Alex Villanueva's administration has spent the last four years caught up in

scandal after scandal. He's faced calls from his own party to step down. We'll know soon what his

fate is. He's being challenged by Robert Luna, the former chief of the

Long Beach Police Department. Luna has the backing of the Los Angeles County Democratic Party.

The support of local officials, Mianoueva, has openly clashed with and even investigated,

and the endorsement of the Los Angeles Times.

Many people think he won the race months ago.

This is a tradition of violence, a history of deputy gangs inside the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department.

Thank you. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. This week, we're bringing you a special episode about the man who wants to be sheriff, Robert Luna. Luna grew up in East Los Angeles and says

that his first memories of the police were watching sheriff's deputies rough-up people in his

neighborhood. Despite his own hostile encounters with police officers, Luna went on to join the

Long Beach Police Department in 1985 as a reserve police officer. He entered the

Police Academy in April of 1987 and went on to be promoted through every rank in the department.

Luna became a member of executive staff under Chief Tom Bishop in 1998 and went on to succeed

Chief Jim McDonald as head of the Long Beach Police

Department when McDonald won the race for Sheriff in 2014. Luna was the first Latino chief in the

department's history and was celebrated by local officials. But other officers of color were wary

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