Posted on 06/12/2010 11:00:53 AM PDT by AJKauf
Like any major city in America one could name, Los Angeles is governed by people of the political left but policed by people of the right. You may find the occasional conservative walking the corridors of L.A. City Hall (a lone member of the city council voted against a boycott of Arizona), and you may find a liberal here and there in the police department, but it is safe to say that those in the city’s government and those in its police department are about as ideologically unaligned as any two groups can be. Even those cops who might start their careers in a leftward frame of mind soon veer to the right as they confront the twin realities of seeing so much money taken from them in taxes while doing a job that offers such an unrivaled view of how that money is spent.
But that rightward tack, generally a steady progression in police officers working patrol and other field assignments, must be reversed by any cop harboring ambition for high rank in his department. Those seeking to ascend into the upper levels of the command structure, most especially anyone aspiring to be chief, must learn to embrace the liberal policies in vogue at City Hall, or at least feign doing so convincingly....
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A lot of Police Chiefs and Sheriffs are nothing but union thugs who are, as usual, out of step with the rank and file law enforcement officers.
The conservative jury is still out on Beck. He sure doesn’t sound like someone who was close to and respected the last real chief—Daryl Gates.
Typical modern-Day “Police Administrator”.
They goal is their career. They could not care less what happens to the street or road cop. If some minority gets offended, you street cop is a “Throw down”.
Their concern is protecting the City and the elected officials, because that is how they got there. A WAY lot different than Joe Arpaio, who is elected by voters.
These kind give your street cops two types to defend against:
The Street thugs and their Administrators
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