LAPD Asks for Money to Prevent Communicable Diseases for Cops Working Filthy Conditions

nbc4losangeles ^ | 12/04/2019

[BenLurkin]

"The majority of pathogens that come into an environment come in from the soles of shoes, and then they atomize, they get up in the air, they land on desks, and that's where our officers are being contaminated," Harris said.

NBC4's I-Team reported in 2018 and 2019 a number of LAPD officers and city workers reported they'd been exposed to infectious diseases, including typhus, salmonella, and MRSA. Most of the reports were made at the Central Area police station in downtown LA.

In March 2019 one officer contracted salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid fever. A second officer then reported that they had contracted typhus, a disease carried by infected fleas that travel on rats.

The LAPD's budget proposal also includes new money to install hand washing stations in booking and report writing areas of police stations, so officers can immediately wash their hands after touching an arrestee or their personal property.

The department also plans to ask for funding to replace old carpet inside police stations and to remove overgrown landscaping in order to remove burrowing areas for rats and mice.

[lee martell]

Those all sound like good ideas. This is even more necessary than before, due to the homeless congregating in most large cities. Many of these people have untreated diseases.
Some of them may resist arrest, get into fights and other physical struggles. Making it all the more likely some germ, virus or colony of bacteria will be transferred to the officer.

[butlerweave]

The Third World State of California

[Fungi]

Have that bastard mayor Garcetti clean up the streets, the homeless encampments, and the trash. In the end it is always about money—but here is is feckless leadership by a rabid leftist.

[HangnJudge]

Oral-fecal transmission, just say’n

[cloudmountain]

ABSOLUTELY this is a good idea. I wonder what took so long. Giving cops guns isn’t enough. Now they need protection from the diseases of the perps.

[wintertime]

Transferred to the officer and his family.....and then to the rest of us.

[Ancient Man]

Don’t worry about curing the disease, just address the modes of transmission.

[TaMoDee]

.....they land on their desks.....
Tell the COPS to keep their feet off their desks!
Part of the problem solved.

[TaMoDee]

.....they land on their desks.....
Tell the COPS to keep their feet off their desks!
Part of the problem solved.

[mylife]

:)

[DIRTYSECRET]

They’re having sex with prostitutes. A good way to avoid arrest. Cops and criminals have much in common. Don’t doubt me.

[MrEdd]

How about clean up the city.
You know.
Cleanliness for everyone, not just for a select few on the public payroll.

[Deaf Smith]

"shoe sanitizing stations"

It is a door mat that says "Wipe Your Feet".

[MrEdd]

It’s L.A.
Much of the time the cops are the pimps, and it has been that way in Los Angelos since the seventies.

[fruser1]

“The majority of pathogens that come into an environment come in from the soles of shoes”

Written by a japanese guy I take it?

So let me get this straight - before shoes, there was no infectious disease.

If I tramping around a “diseased” area, like crawling around a dumpster, alley way, or filthy apartment, it’s not my presence there that gets me sick; that only occurs later when whatever I track inside with my shoes flies into the air.

GTFO.