State probe of Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department is soon to be released

Let there be no doubt about it: No discussion of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department in what could have been a tragic week can go ahead without starting with the relief we all feel over the release from the hospital of Deputy Samuel Aispuro — shot in the back by a coward while on his department motorcycle — and the swift apprehension of the fleeing suspected shooter a day later.

Aispuro, father of two, will live to protect the people of our sprawling and, yes, dangerous county for many more shifts to come.