Explorers-Boy Scouts: 'A disturbing relationship'

The Los Angeles Police Department's largest youth program came under fire Tuesday for its links to the Boy Scouts of America, which condemns homosexuality, and the department is looking into possible replacements. Rachel Uranga in the Daily News.

Every year, hundreds of youths participate in the department's Explorer program in an effort the LAPD sees as key to recruiting.

But the program was assailed by departing and openly gay Los Angeles Police Commissioner Shelley Freeman and other commissioners for its ties to the Scouts.