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Richard Pippin, president of the Assn. of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, the union that represents rank-and-file deputies, worried about the effect on public safety.

With a budget proposal for the next fiscal year that includes no cost-of-living raises for county employees, Pippin said he feared the situation could grow worse.

When he sincerely offers his thoughts on it — “I mean, it’s like MC Hammer, Peter Pan. It’s got a little Pippin.” — is pretty great, but it’s the way he tilts his head back with his sigh of “ahhh” as she says, “It’s the folk music and the rap music,” that’s gold.

“As someone who worked at the Altadena sheriff’s station for years, I can tell you the deputies assigned there are emotionally invested in the community and heartbroken over the devastation they’ve witnessed,” Richard Pippin, president of the Assn. of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, said Friday afternoon.

Richard Pippin, president of the Assn. of Los Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, emphasized that deputies are still doing their jobs despite the difficult working conditions.