Aryeh Cohen
President, Los Angeles Ethics CommissionRuns the Ethics Commission’s meetings; we identified Cohen’s voice at all four transcribed.
Presides over the Ethics Commission
Talk time, and Cohen’s other bodies
- Ethics Commission: talk time not compared. Presides over its meetings, so isn’t compared with the members.
Every meeting where we identified Cohen’s voice
- Aug 19, 2026Ethics Commission12.9 minVideo
- Jun 17, 2026Ethics Commission5.3 min42:04
- Feb 18, 2026Ethics Commission0.7 min1:12:50
- Dec 17, 2025Ethics Commission10.7 min1:40:54
How we identify who is speaking · blind check, pooled across five cities: of 340 commission lines drawn, 260 right, 4 wrong, 1 unclear, 75 couldn’t be judged
We identified Cohen’s voice at four meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Cohen was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Aryeh Cohen’s name only when both agree and a code check finds the name said on, or just before, their turn. Voices our transcripts merge with someone else’s are never attributed, so every count here undercounts what Cohen said. For commissions, of 340 lines drawn, 260 were right, 4 wrong and 1 unclear, and the checkers couldn’t judge 75. We have since removed the voices behind 64 of those lines (3 wrong, 0 unclear, the rest we had already held for other reasons). Of the 276 lines we still publish, the checkers could judge 228: 226 right, 1 wrong and 1 unclear (90% lower bound 0.97). They couldn’t judge the other 48. The check is one sample pooled across the five cities, not of Cohen or of Los Angeles alone.