While Los Angeles police say they will review more officers’ firings in the wake of the Christopher Dorner case, it’s unclear how many cases will be re-examined.

Between 2010 and 2012 alone, 67 officers were removed after departmental trials known as boards of rights, Deputy Chief Mark Perez said Wednesday.

Another 27 were suspended or demoted.

At least six officers are known to now be asking to have their cases re-examined, after LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said the department would look at Dorner’s firing again.

It’s possible many others could make the same demands, potentially straining the department’s resources.

“If I got fired and all this fuss came after I got fired, I think I’d probably go do the same thing,” said Perez, who oversees the Professional Standards Bureau, which includes Internal Affairs investigators.

One who is looking to have his case reopened is Derek Sykes, a former LAPD officer who was fired in 2009.

“I would think the LAPD should open any case that there’s allegations of misconduct involved in,” Sykes said in an interview. “That’s what I would hope. There are other officers out there who are in Dorner’s position, who have lost everything.”

Sykes said he did not know whether he was counted among the six who are known to be asking for their cases to be reopened. His wife, Christy Sykes, said she has spent years writing to people in the department and the mayor asking for a review.

Cmdr. Andrew Smith, an LAPD spokesman, said the department would not release the names of the six officers Wednesday. He had no information on Sykes’ case.

Smith said the six cases will likely be reviewed by the department’s inspector general or Gerald Chaleff, the special assistant for constitutional policing. Chaleff is leading the review of the Dorner case.

Smith said it’s possible but “highly unlikely” a fired officer could be reinstated if a review found an error in the discipline process.

But if 100 former officers requested reviews, it would be very hard to re-examine all their cases, Smith said.

Asked how the department would decide what cases to look at, Smith said it would be up to Beck.

At Tuesday’s Police Commission meeting, The Associated Press reported Beck said, “If people bring forward issues relative to their boards of rights or their firing that appear to have substance, I’ll have somebody look at them, do a biopsy, and make sure they were done the way that they should have been done.”

He did not say how he will determine which cases appear to have substance without investigating them.

“I just feel like it wouldn’t be fair to open up one and not open others when there’s inconsistencies in all of them,” Christy Sykes said.

Derek Sykes said reading Dorner’s manifesto reminded him of his own experience.

“It was everything that I had gone through,” Sykes said. “There were people lying. There were outside factors involved in my Board of Rights.”

Sykes, who is now with another police agency that he would not specify, said he was fired for failing to take a found backpack from a cab driver who tried to turn it in as lost property. The cabbie was actually an officer conducting a sting that came after Sykes was disciplined for taking marijuana from a teenager and throwing it in a gutter instead of turning it in.

Sykes said he didn’t do anything wrong by cutting a teenager a break and lecturing him instead of arresting him.

“That’s referred to as community policing, and that’s what we’re supposed to be geared for,” he said.

But he was suspended for that incident. Sykes said that prior suspension was likely why he was fired after the sting when his partner was merely suspended for 15 days.

In the sting, the officer posing as the cabbie claimed not to have ID, so Sykes and his partner said they couldn’t take the backpack under LAPD policy.

Sykes said he believes someone higher up wanted him fired and the internal sting was merely a pretext.

Dorner was fired in 2009 after a Board of Rights found he made a false allegation of excessive force against a fellow officer. In his 11,000-word manifesto, Dorner said the LAPD’s discipline process is unfair and rigged to favor certain officers. He also said the department is unfair to minority officers.

Dorner is believed to have killed a young couple and two police officers before committing suicide Feb. 12 during a final standoff with police in San Bernardino County.

While Dorner was still at large, Beck ordered a review of his case and the broader allegations in his manifesto. That review is expected to take another month or two.

Beck has said he thinks Dorner’s allegations about the LAPD are untrue, but wants to reassure the public the department is as open and fair as possible.

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