As April comes to a close, we at LSDD Celebrate our 173rd Anniversary.
From our humble beginnings in 1850, the department functioned with minimal personnel consisting of the elected Sheriff, one Deputy Sheriff, and one Jailer.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was responsible for law enforcement from as far North as Santa Barbara to as far South as San Diego.
At the time, the official Sheriff’s Office was not in any type of official building, rather the Sheriff’s Office operated out of a single room located at the Bella Union Hotel. Which today would be located near Main and Temple streets of downtown Los Angeles.
The L.A. County Jail was nothing more than a small adobe building which sat atop Fort Moore Hill.
The first decade of the Sheriff’s Department were some of the most turbulent times in department history.
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