Posted on 05/30/2026 5:03:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Thirty years of shifting priorities and culture has wrecked police departments across the country.
In 1995, as a Valley Traffic Division motorcycle enforcement officer in Van Nuys, I noticed something that bothered me about how the press covered the Los Angeles Police Department. The reporters were not lying, exactly. They were doing what reporters do: taking the department’s official statement, taking a critic’s statement, splitting the difference, and printing the result. The problem was that the department’s side of the story arrived at the newspaper through a small communications office, got compressed into two or three sentences, and then competed with whatever the loudest critic of the week had to say. The public read the result and concluded that the department was either hiding something or was incapable of explaining itself. Often it was the second.
There was an obvious fix. The department could speak for itself, directly, in its own words, without a middleman, twenty-four hours a day, to anyone in the world who wanted to read it. The technology to do this had just arrived. It was called the World Wide Web.
I did not ask for permission. I obtained server space through a private consulting firm I ran on the side, donated it to the department, and built a Valley Traffic Division website at thrutraffic.com/vt. Julie Tamaki at the Los Angeles Times wrote it up. Other LAPD officers and other departments began calling to ask how to do the same thing. I helped several U.S. and international agencies put up their own sites before the responsibility for police internet work was eventually transferred to a thirty-person office that did not exist when the work started.
The story is not about me. It is about what was possible inside the LAPD in 1995, and what is no longer
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LAPD has been taken over by the left and ruined.
45 Communist Goals
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand or treat.
> LAPD has been taken over by the left and ruined. <
And it’s a one-way street. No one is going to show up and set things right. The same can be said about the situation in Chicago and other D cities.
What’s happening in these city police departments is also happening in their school districts.
I don’t see any solutions. Except to stay out of such places.
The so called consent decrees Obama/Biden forced on many police departments cased similar problems in many places!
Institutions across the US are crumbling. From medicine, to higher education, to criminal justice, to the political process itself. I’m gonna get flamed here, but much of the US is a third world country.
>>I don’t see any solutions. Except to stay out of such places.
That can only work if you keep the people in those places in those places. Otherwise they eventually spread like locusts.
I don't put much faith in psychiatrists. They're the ones pushing that one's "gender is assigned at birth", when in reality one's sex is recorded at birth.
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