Posted on 05/30/2007 12:11:25 PM PDT by forty_years
Despite evidence to the contrary, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton fed his own officers to the dogs at a press conference held yesterday. Obviously, his career advancement comes before officer safety. Bratton stated that a "'command and control breakdown' and poor officer communication fueled violence" between police officers and demonstrators at a May 1 immigration rally in MacArthur Park. But the LAPD's own "transmissions, video footage and dozens of interviews from command staff" show that some of the demonstrators violently attacked police, according to a report aired on NPR yesterday. Jack Dunphy has "spoken with people who were directly involved and [has] pieced together what [he is] confident is an accurate if incomplete description of the events:"
...The cops on the line remained impassive to these insults, but when the crowd began pelting them with bottles (some filled with urine), cans, batteries, and almost anything else that can be picked up and thrown, police commanders declared the gathering an unlawful assembly and gave an order to disperse. ...
Dunphy comes to the same conclusion I do regarding Chief Bratton's betrayal of his officers:
...There is nothing in all of God’s creation that preoccupies Bratton more than the way he is covered in the media, so I have no doubt the he was good and disturbed at the sight of his friends in the press being jostled about and herded like goats across the park. As has become the rule, tactical decisions made in the heat of the moment will now be viewed through a political lens and judged on how they impact Bratton’s and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s reputations. The politicians will howl, but the cops on the ground will be the ones who suffer. ...
It is easy for people to criticize the police, but how many citizens have broken up a domestic dispute, tried to stop a gang war, or tried to arrest someone out of their mind on crack? Next time you jump on the "police brutality" bandwagon, I suggest you get to know the men and women in blue, and try to empathize with what they go through every day on the job.
http://netwmd.com/blog/2007/05/30/1732
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it is amazing that the LAPD still turns out everyday for work.
Your humor/satire is right on, but how far is it — or will it be — from the truth in 20 years?
Empathize with Mr. Click it or Ticket?
You have got to be kidding.
"Click it or ticket" is how they show the public the way they themselves want to be treated.
“Mr. Click it or Ticket” is a pretty narrow cross-section of officers. Who keeps you safe?
Bratton is the prototype of the self-aggrandizing, media sucking, administrative incompetent, sell out his officers brown-nosing politico. Bratton/Villaragosa ‘08.
Certainly not the Revenue Agents out playing Click it or Ticket.
Think about it this way, what they would normally be doing is so unimportant, that there is no problem pulling them away it, for something as completely useless as Click it or Ticket.
They would not be missed and taxpayers would be relived of pension obligations if they were just terminated from the payroll.
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