Set us as preferredLawyers for the LAPD officer charged with multiple felonies for secretly recording his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments issued a scathing response to Los Angeles County Dist. AdvertisementIn the days since the charges were announced, the case has sparked fierce criticism of Hochman and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell. On Friday, the district attorney’s office made public a 27-page motion asking for a lengthy preliminary hearing in the case. ’s efforts to justify the actions of officers that Flores recorded using terms such as “rapeable” and “monkeys.” He cited a recent Times story showing that the department has upheld only a small fraction of the nearly 5,000 biased policing complaints made against LAPD officers in the last decade.