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Rasha Gerges Shields

President, Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners

Raised ICE and immigration enforcement at seven meetings.

29 of 29transcribed meetings with their voice identified

Presides over the Board of Police Commissioners

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Three clips, newest first

“Are we continuing to monitor, uh, the incoming, like, 911 call data to see whether people are not calling as frequently given the federal enforcement of immigration or things like that on a continuous basis?”Los Angeles26:09
ICE and immigration enforcementRasha Gerges ShieldsCommissioner · Board of Police Commissioners · Mar 24, 2026 · 26:09Open the meeting at 26:09
“Yes, I, I, it does. And just, you know, you mentioned that there were, you know, uses of force that were documented and will be investigated. And I know that there were allegations that a journalist was impacted or shot by one of these less lethal. Is that also under investigation, and was that documented?”Rasha Gerges ShieldsCommissioner · Board of Police Commissioners · Nov 4, 2025 · 13:11“I’m particularly interested in the number of, um, police calls that have been essentially canceled or cleared by the drone as a first responder.”Rasha Gerges ShieldsCommissioner · Board of Police Commissioners · Feb 10, 2026 · 2:03:25

Officials only. Public speakers are counted, never named.

Issues Shields raised, by number of meetings

We count who raised an issue, not which side they took.

Talk time, and Shields’ other bodies
Neighborhoods Shields named

One place Shields named in meetings

Lines where Shields named the place, read by two AI readers that both agree it means that place. Each dot plays the newest one; brighter means named more often.

Los Angeles
  • Skid Row 1 time

Places are drawn at the centre of their own boundary in the city’s Neighborhood Councils (Certified) file (City of Los Angeles, Bureau of Engineering (LA GeoHub)); a well-known area with no boundary of its own sits at its OpenStreetMap point. A dot says the place was named, not where Shields was or what was said about it.

Meetings

Every meeting where we identified Shields’ voice

29, newest first. The date opens the meeting; the time plays the video at Shields’ first remark.

  1. Sep 29, 2026Board of Police Commissioners31.6 minVideo
  2. Sep 22, 2026Board of Police Commissioners20.9 minVideo
  3. Sep 15, 2026Board of Police Commissioners14.1 minVideo
  4. Sep 1, 2026Board of Police Commissioners36.3 minVideo
  5. Aug 18, 2026Board of Police Commissioners17.6 minVideo
  6. Aug 11, 2026Board of Police Commissioners26.2 minVideo
  7. Jul 28, 2026Board of Police Commissioners28.3 minVideo
  8. Jul 14, 2026Board of Police Commissioners26.7 minVideo
  9. Jun 30, 2026Board of Police Commissioners22.3 minVideo
  10. Jun 9, 2026Board of Police Commissioners30.1 minVideo
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  1. Jun 2, 2026Board of Police Commissioners19.0 minVideo
  2. May 12, 2026Board of Police Commissioners22.3 minVideo
  3. May 5, 2026Board of Police Commissioners15.0 min0:08
  4. Apr 28, 2026Board of Police Commissioners20.2 minVideo
  5. Apr 14, 2026Board of Police Commissioners15.4 minVideo
  6. Apr 7, 2026Board of Police Commissioners4.2 min11:48
  7. Mar 24, 2026Board of Police Commissioners20.5 min22:53
  8. Mar 10, 2026Board of Police Commissioners7.6 min22:00
  9. Mar 3, 2026Board of Police Commissioners14.5 min2:15:44
  10. Feb 24, 2026Board of Police Commissioners5.7 min25:04
  11. Feb 10, 2026Board of Police Commissioners8.4 min14:37
  12. Feb 3, 2026Board of Police Commissioners9.1 min19:50
  13. Jan 27, 2026Board of Police Commissioners15.6 min15:41
  14. Jan 13, 2026Board of Police Commissioners7.8 minVideo
  15. Dec 16, 2025Board of Police Commissioners22.8 minVideo
  16. Dec 9, 2025Board of Police Commissioners15.5 min19:13
  17. Nov 18, 2025Board of Police Commissioners25.3 min18:08
  18. Nov 4, 2025Board of Police Commissioners11.3 min11:42
  19. Oct 28, 2025Board of Police Commissioners7.0 min14:30
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 Shields’ voice at 29 meetings. A meeting missing here means we couldn’t attribute the voice, not that Shields was absent. Claude and Gemini each read every transcript with that day’s roster. A voice gets Rasha Gerges Shields’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 Shields 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 Shields or of Los Angeles alone.