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Why Bother?
NRO ^ | 16 Nov 06 | Jack Dunphy

Posted on 11/16/2006 5:53:30 AM PST by rellimpank

The LAPD is back in the spotlight.

Sometimes a cop can only shake his head in wonder at the silliness of it all. For reasons that escape me, a videotaped arrest that occurred three months ago in Hollywood has stirred national and even international attention, once again putting the Los Angeles Police Department in a familiar yet uncomfortable position. By now you must surely have seen the video, available on YouTube and elsewhere, in which two LAPD officers are shown subduing a man who allegedly ran from them when they tried to arrest him for an outstanding felony warrant.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: cops; crime
--and then there is OJ again--wonder how Mark Furman feels about that TV special?
1 posted on 11/16/2006 5:53:30 AM PST by rellimpank
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Though crime continues to decline in Los Angeles as a whole, violent crime has increased, year to year, in eight of the city’s 19 patrol divisions, and arrests have declined in ten divisions, a glaring sign of a police department that is losing its motivation.

Yep - and the public will pay.

2 posted on 11/16/2006 5:56:06 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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--and "gun control" will be promoted as the solution--


3 posted on 11/16/2006 5:57:08 AM PST by rellimpank (-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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Great read.


4 posted on 11/16/2006 5:58:45 AM PST by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("Health care is coming back. It may be a bad dream for some." Sen. Hillary Clinton)
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Liberals I know automatically condemn any police roughness when a real criminal is subdued and praise law enforcement when SWAT teams smash into a wrong address and kill someone.


5 posted on 11/16/2006 6:01:46 AM PST by arthurus (Better to fight them over THERE than over HERE)
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Chris Rock has a great (and funny) video about how to NOT get your butt kicked by the police.

Great tips here...

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8069189796598912031&q=chris+rock&hl=en


6 posted on 11/16/2006 6:37:16 AM PST by fredhead (Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?)
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Fred Reed recently wrote a column on the state of America's police force. His point was that much of America's police force depends on a mostly law-abiding, mostly (ahem) non-minority population.

Fred wanted to know what will happen when the population reaches a tipping point where too many members of the minority groups are *not* law abiding, and for the usual political reasons, politicians choose to back the criminals, rather than the police. A fair question, I thought, but I wasn't sure what could be done about it.

7 posted on 11/16/2006 7:25:41 AM PST by wbill
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--Fred wanted to know what will happen--

--IMHO, we are already there---

8 posted on 11/16/2006 8:06:28 AM PST by rellimpank (-don't believe anything the MSM states about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
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The criminals just see a new way to get free money -- whine. Disgusting.


9 posted on 11/16/2006 8:16:05 AM PST by bboop (Stealth Tutor)
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