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Remove the battery and replace it with a new AA, making sure that the positive side of the new battery is facing the bottom of the controller. If you haven't already, this is a good opportunity to swap out any disposable batteries for some quality rechargeable ones. In addition to being more environmentally friendly, they're also much more cost-effective in the long run.

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CJLP attorneys and students spent more than a year researching and drafting their findings drawing on an exhaustive array of sources, including transcripts of Internal Affairs Bureau interviews with law enforcement officers, internal memos and more. The final product looks at 18 different “deputy gangs” and their impact on the communities they serve.

“The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) has a long history of deputies forming secret subgroups at stations in minority communities. Some of these subgroups have tattoos, hand signals and rituals that are similar to a criminal street gang,” says the report in its introduction. “The concern is that these subgroups foster a culture that resists police reforms, such as community policing and constitutional policing, by encouraging and even celebrating aggressive tactics and excessive use of force against minority communities.”

On September 30, 2021, California’s governor signed into law AB 958, which as of January 1, 2022, adds section 13670 to the California Penal Code. Section 13670 will require every law enforcement agency in California to maintain a policy that prohibits participation in a law enforcement gang and to cooperate in any investigation into these gangs by an inspector general, the Attorney General, or any other authorized agency. Click here to read the legislative history of this bill, citing the CJLP report and its recommendations.

“The evidence that deputy gangs exist, when viewed in its totality in a single report, is overwhelming,” said chief author Sean Kennedy (LMU '86, LLS '89), Kaplan & Feldman Executive Director of the CJLP and member of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Civilian Oversight Commission. “These deputy gangs foster a culture of violence and escalate uses of force against community members, including fatal shootings. The institutional failure to address these deputy gangs in any meaningful way has deprived the community of equal justice under the law.”

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The Center for Juvenile Law & Policy (CJLP) at LMU Loyola Law School has released “Fifty Years of ‘Deputy Gangs’ in the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department: Identifying Root Causes and Effects to Advocate for Meaningful Reforms,” a comprehensive report documenting how “deputy gangs” have negatively impacted policing in Los Angeles and infected the fairness of legal proceedings in Los Angeles Superior Court.

Once the new battery has been inserted, all that's left to do is replace the magnetic panel and then repeat the process on the other controller. They should automatically re-synch with the Oculus client app once you press any button to turn each of them back on. Then you should be all set to dive back into your virtual world.

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That said, finding the battery when it's time to change it out might have some gamers scratching their heads. The engineers who designed the Oculus controllers wanted them to feel smooth and seamless, so there isn't an obvious clasp or anything like that to indicate where the user needs to open it up when it comes time to change out the battery. The process is pretty simple when you know how though.

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“The proliferation of deputy gangs and cliques within the LASD for nearly 50 years is not happenstance. Many LASD members have embraced a warrior model of policing in which deputies behave like an occupying force over the communities they police,” states the report. “The heart of these collective recommendations is that law enforcement must move away from viewing themselves as at war with the communities they police and toward a model of policing that values and implements constitutional policing, community policing and procedural justice.”

There have been several iterations of the Oculus, (now Meta) controller, and most of them run on AA batteries. This might seem like a primitive power source in this day in age, but it's designed that way for the user's convenience. Rechargeable controllers with built-in batteries are great for most consoles since you can simply play with them plugged in when they run out of juice. But tethering VR controllers to a power outlet can cause all sorts of problems.

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The full report is viewable below or available for PDF download. (Click the [ ] icon in the bottom right of the frame to launch a full-screen version.)

If you look closely at one of the Oculus controllers, you should see a seam separating the plastic panels on the grip. One of these panels is permanently fixed to the controller while the other is magnetically held in place. Place your thumb at the top of the panel opposite the triggers, just below the face where most of the buttons are located. Now apply pressure toward the bottom of the controller to break the magnetic hold and slide the panel out of place. You should now be able to see the battery inside.

The report concludes by encouraging reform with the LASD, specifically by implementing the 59 recommendations contained in the Report of the President’s Task Force on Twenty-First Century Policing.

Using AAs allows the gamer to choose between disposable and rechargeable options while also freeing them up to swap out dead batteries in an instant rather than having a game session ruined when one of the controllers goes dead in the middle of a round of "Beat Saber." It's also one of the many ways that Meta keeps production costs low which has allowed the Quest 2 to remain one of the cheaper performance VR headsets on the market even after its unwelcome price hike in 2022.