Word: karol
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...separately, show an overall drop in claims and lawsuits against the 7,900-man force since 1985. But statistics from the Police Misconduct Lawyers Referral Service, a nonprofit civil rights advocacy group that counsels police-abuse victims, suggest the department's figures are misleading. The group's executive director, Karol Heppe, says the agency receives more than 200 police-abuse and rights-violation complaints each month. L.A.P.D. spokesmen concede that the department's reputation for no-nonsense law enforcement is justified. But they deny charges of widespread overaggressiveness or brutality. "L.A. is a city that gets talked about...