Posted on 12/28/2009 12:30:51 PM PST by thecodont
The LAPD is struggling to fill vacancies in gang units as a financial disclosure rule meant to fight corruption has been received by many rank-and-file cops as an insult -- and a deal-breaker when it comes to working the tough gangland assignments.
After years of contentious battles with police union representatives over the issue, Los Angeles Police Department officials pushed through a policy in April that requires gang officers to disclose details of their personal finances.
Intended to help supervisors catch cops who are taking bribes or to identify officers in financial straits who might be tempted to stray, the policy has considerable reach: Officers must disclose outside income, real estate, stocks and other assets. They also have to report the size of bank accounts and debts, including mortgages and credit cards. And the disclosures apply to any financial holdings a cop shares with family members and business partners.
When it went into effect, then-Chief William J. Bratton and other officials insisted that the policy would have little effect on recruiting and retaining gang cops and vowed to block efforts by officers to leave gang units en masse in protest.
But erosion in the ranks is apparent. According to interviews with police officers and gang unit supervisors across the city, the number of officers dedicated to fighting gangs is beginning to drop. And top brass now acknowledge that they must do more to confront discontent and distrust.
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Lame, dickdiver, lame. You can do better. Try again.
Despite your petty insults and foul language I’m not impressed with you.
Corruption in the LAPD is fact, ex-cops from the LAPD gang unit are sitting in jail because of it. Some of the people they framed are out of jail but some aren’t. As I recall there were hundreds of cases compromised.
Cops wanna be above the law. They aren’t. So stick your gutter language and grow up.
“Despite your petty insults and foul language I’m not impressed with you.”
Ooooh! Such a slam.
The next paragraph is a better response. About time you wrote something semi-cogent instead of your usual inane one liners.
It was the Rampart Division with the problem.
Keep practicing. Someday you may amount to something instead of a chronic bitcher and whiner. I doubt it, but hope springs eternal, they say.
Hey you managed to make a post without using foul language. Thats pretty amazing.
Killed any pets lately? Or do you focus more on supplying drugs to the hookers?
Back to the inane one liners again, eh? You may wish to put on a clean t shirt, get out of that singlewide rented trailer you live in, and see the real world. It’s not really like that TV you’re always glued to when you aren’t flipping through the women’s underwear section of the JC Penney catalog.
“Killed any pets lately? Or do you focus more on supplying drugs to the hookers?”
Nah. I retired and can’t do that anymore. That bums me out. Especially the pet killing part.
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