[John Jorsett]

Maywood is the place that forbade its officers from enforcing traffic laws because too many illegals were getting picked up for driving without a license and losing their cars. They've also largely done away with code enforcement for residential properties, resulting in virtual shantytowns springing up to rent to illegals.

[mewzilla]

New LAPD flashlights are too small to be used as weapons (Disarm Police /Empower Criminals update)

Gee, why do I think flashlights are the least of their problems...

[JimRed]

What's new about that? Police departments have a right to reassign officers to less desirable postings for disciplinary reasons

[radar101]

They let ILLEGAL ALIENS do as they please--Why not "police with pasts"?

http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=156926

Cops Comment on Maywood Protest These comments were posted on the Save Our State forum.

I am a visitor on this site and would like to give a little insight into how the day went. I hope you don’t mind. I was one of the police officers assigned to the event. I will not say which department I work for, but, will say that there were officers from 5 different agencies there. As far as we were concerned, the day went pretty well. That means that nobody had any major injuries. I do want to express my condolences to your female friend that was attacked. I wish her well.

The city council is out of control in Maywood. There are 2 good councilmen and 3 bad ones. The leader is the Vice Mayor. He takes all his orders from the church. The police dept pretty much has its hands tied. They did disband the traffic unit by order of the city council. They do still impound cars but can’t put the state’s mandatory 30 day hold on them. Another agency has been enforcing traffic laws and impounding cars. The city has no authority over their officers

[Inquisitive1]

Among those on the job: A former Los Angeles County sheriff's deputy terminated for abusing jail inmates; a onetime Los Angeles Police Department officer fired for intimidating a witness; and an ex-Huntington Park officer charged with negligently shooting a handgun and driving drunk.

Good political move: The Powers That Be can either (1) Take credit for lowering the crime rate by letting these officers 'operate at their discretion' [WINK, WINK...KNUDGE, KNUDGE...] and, if things go wrong and someone sues on the grounds of the officers past pattern[s] of behavior, said PTB can claim "We didn't hire them...they were forced upon us!!!"