Councilmember Walters called a special item and urged the Los Angeles Police Department and city personnel to change recruiting practices that she said had targeted predominantly white venues rather than campuses and communities that would produce a more diverse applicant pool.

"They went to Colorado Springs, for example," Walters said, citing what she described as recruitment stops that did not reach the diversity the city needs. She also criticized a decision to place a recruiting event at American University in Washington, D.C., rather than on Howard University's campus, a historically Black university. Walters said the recruiting approach did not align with the city's consent-decree goals on diversity and urged the department to prioritize outreach to underrepresented communities and to recruit more women.

The council voted to "prepare the rule" and to move the item forward from committee; the clerk recorded the vote as 13 ayes. Walters said she will continue to monitor department recruiting and raised the issue for full council consideration after committee-level review.