"This is the city: Los Angeles, California."
Posted on 04/10/2026 3:55:20 PM PDT by Libloather
The Defund the Police movement lives on in the LA City Council, only now it flies under the banner of democratic control.
The council’s most left-wing members seek to transfer crime-fighting authority from law enforcement experts to the council and the city controller.
These would-be police overlords might want to familiarize themselves with the agency that they aspire to run. They would learn that the LAPD sets a national standard of professionalism and restraint.
According to The California Post, council members Hugo Soto-Martinez, Eunisses Hernandez, and Nithya Raman want the power to override the LAPD police chief and the civilian Police Commission’s decisions regarding tactics, officer discipline, and funding.
“Our proposal is simple,” wrote Soto-Martinez on social media. “Give City Council the ability to set LAPD policy through laws.”
The council activists want to ban what they call “pretextual stops of black and brown people” and to prevent LAPD officers from working with ICE agents, reports the Post.
They seek to create a new fiefdom within the city controller’s office — a “Bureau of Police Oversight” — that would possess greater authority over the LAPD’s finances. Not coincidentally, Controller Kenneth Meija has called for shifting police resources into social services and alternatives to policing, according to the Post.
These proposals are ignorant and dangerous.
The LAPD is already overregulated and second-guessed. The council activists apparently view the five-member civilian Police Commission as too sympathetic to officers. It is anything but.
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No one has more than a fourth grade education.
And I’m including the college graduates.
Oh, just get rid of the police entirely.
Let the citizens do whatever they feel like doing.
There won’t be any bad guys around in about a week or two.
Less and less I think, even in these liberal areas, that they voted for it. Vote cheating explains the absence of the pendulum that used to swing .
"This is the city: Los Angeles, California."
The Rookie in a recent episode went blatantly liberal.
It was some anyway but tolerable.
Give me the LAPD of Dragnet.
Oh, just get rid of the police entirely.
Let the citizens do whatever they feel like doing.
There won’t be any bad guys around in about a week or two.
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This
You can’t fix retarded.
Of course the rhetoric appeals to the ignorant, but I think those behind this move know exactly what they are doing.
Yeah, turn us loose, please. Tools are cleaned and oiled, ready to go, and optics are zeroed.
This crap was never voted on by the public.
Can you say, Gestapo? I knew you could.
Exactly. Some see defunding the police as a problem, I see it as an opportunity. It’s open season on leftist politicians.
We never learn from past mistakes. Since the Korean Conflict, we have let the Rule of Engagement (ROE) be set by politicians and it is noteworthy that we haven’t won a war since. War is messy and it should be managed by those who understand it best: The Generals and other military leaders whose profession it is to insure this country’s safety. If Truman hadn’t had the stones to use the Atomic bomb, we’d still be fighting door-to-door in Japan. By setting the ROE in the Viet Nam war to not allow the bombing of Hanoi, politicians prolonged the war, increasing fatalities on BOTH sides. A short war is better than a long war.
Yet, here we go again, letting the politicians of LA set the ROE for the police departments in LA. Sadly, LA will learn the hard way that politicians don’t have the know-how to prevent crime.
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