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Hi, Imperfect Paradise listeners.

This is Frank Stoltz.

Alex Fianueva has conceded. He lost his bid for a second term as sheriff of L.A. County.

I want to wish the incoming sheriff well. I want him to succeed for a simple reason.

The safety of the community depends on him succeeding. The welfare of every single

person on the department depends on him succeeding. That's Vianueva speaking during a news conference

on Tuesday, November 15th. This is the second consecutive election that an incumbent L.A. Sheriff has

lost after serving just one term, something that hadn't happened in more than a century before

2018. That's when Vianoewa beat then-Sheriff Jim McDonald. As you may remember from our series,

Vianueva ran as a progressive Democrat and reformer back then. He was a huge underdog,

a former lieutenant at the sheriff's Department, who had never

supervised more than a few dozen deputies. Finojava promised to reform the Sheriff's Department,

to get rid of corruption, rebuild it from the ground up, and restore the community's faith

in the department. But in the end, he had these authoritarian tendencies. He was a vindictive

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