Do they comment on their own stupidity and incompetence?
ka-CHING. Seven figures, I’d settle for no less.
The big news here is that the LAPD actually arrested someone.
I wish people understood that police are the standing army our founders warned us about. Like the myth of teachers being the best and brightest (they think so anyway), cops are not drawn from the top layer of the gene pool. The founders did NOT envision any sort of a permanent standing armed force controlled and run by the government.
A close relative was in the police academy in SF in 2009. Some of the anecdotes she related about those in the academy was disturbing. And, believe it or not, SF - at that time - was hard to get into, had some of the highest standards in the country.
The police are lazy.
They do not check their work and once you are in the system they consider it highly insulting to check the work of who ever processed you.
So you are in the system and will be chewed on until someone rescues you.
I would be concerned about giving the police my SS number. I once stopped filing a theft report (from my car) because they wanted my SS number as I was a ‘victim.’ They even wanted my height and weight. I was not present during the theft. It happened in my driveway sometime in the night.
How do they make such a bone-headed mistake? Incredible.
“LAPD failed to check the driver’s license.” ‘Nuff said. My patron saint does a better job of protecting me than the LAPD.
A thoroughly disgraceful performance by the LAPD. Hopefully Ms. Farber and her attorney can extract a few million from the city’s taxpayers.