Robert Rizzo, Disgraced Former Bell City Manager, Pushed Police Hard To Impound Cars

by Patrick Coolican for LA Weekly, view original article

August 12, 2010

Sometime in early 2009, patrol officers for the Bell Police Department were given an ultimatum: If they didn't help fill city coffers by stepping up their towing and impounding of cars, Bell would have to lay off four fellow officers.

That order followed a decade of similar edicts pushing an abusive impound policy that came down from Robert Rizzo, who resigned as city manager last month after the Los Angeles Times revealed he had been making nearly $800,000 per year.

The account comes from Officer Kurt Owens and was confirmed by other Bell police officers.

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