Orlando Martinez
Detective, Los Angeles California Police Department
2023
Detective Orlando Martinez has been a sworn police officer for 29 years, and he is currently assigned to the prestigious Robbery-Homicide Division of the LAPD. He has been a detective for more than 20 years, during which he investigated murders for 15 years. He has spent the past several years analyzing and investigating hate crimes in the City of Los Angeles. He has authored training for law enforcement and community groups; conducted and overseen hate crime and hate incident investigations; and assisted the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST), which sets minimum selection and training standards for California law enforcement, complete a Hate Crime Model Policy and training videos. He was awarded the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Helene and Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate and was recognized by the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism for excellence in his efforts during the fight against hate
This cannot be thought of as a conference or a summit. The stakes are simply too high and the data/conversation and methods to drive action more valuable/motivating than any gathering I have attended. I took more than 100 pages of notes and have shared them with my CBS News leadership team, anchors, producers, and correspondents. Nothing about this gathering was easy. The agony around this topic is real. But no one curious about it could ask for a more devoted, rational, or unflinching look into this dark but decipherable world.
