Comments on: Identity Politics Brushed Aside in LAPD Chief Selection http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/ Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:58:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: 426 http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-441145 426 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:07:43 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-441145 So Gernot are you saying that a Black person can't be chief just based on their qualifications? And to think you were once a police officer patrolling and making decisions that affect the lives of Blacks. Scary! So Gernot are you saying that a Black person can’t be chief just based on their qualifications? And to think you were once a police officer patrolling and making decisions that affect the lives of Blacks. Scary!

]]> By: 426 http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-441144 426 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:04:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-441144 I meant there. I meant there.

]]> By: 426 http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-441142 426 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:03:36 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-441142 Funny how when you have three candidates that are White, no one claims it's identity politics, but if a Hispanic, Black, or even a female was selected, you guys would be screaming they were selected because of their race, gender, etc. Has it occurred to you that maybe the three finalist where their because of their race. California is still predominately White and the mayor (who is eyeing a run for higher political office) knows he needs whites in order to win. Beck has little education and is chief of one of the largest departments in the U.S, but you're telling me this was not about who's buddy with who and not about pleasing the majority group. Funny how when you have three candidates that are White, no one claims it’s identity politics, but if a Hispanic, Black, or even a female was selected, you guys would be screaming they were selected because of their race, gender, etc. Has it occurred to you that maybe the three finalist where their because of their race. California is still predominately White and the mayor (who is eyeing a run for higher political office) knows he needs whites in order to win. Beck has little education and is chief of one of the largest departments in the U.S, but you’re telling me this was not about who’s buddy with who and not about pleasing the majority group.

]]> By: Gernot http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-440889 Gernot Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:21:56 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-440889 I retired from LAPD Rampart Division in the 80's. At that time it was the best division in the city. The so called Rampart scandal was caused by one individual officer, and a Chief of Police who chose to believe a convicted felon over his own officers. A few officers involved with Perez were convicted of some infractions, but he was the only one who went to jail. Bernard Parks was the worst possible choice to be Chief of Police, the Commission could have selected. It is noteworthy that blacks comprise only 7% of L.A.'s population, but seemed to require the city to have two black chiefs of police. Politics do indeed make strange bedfellows. I know Charly Beck and he will make a great Chief. I agree that Bratton was good for the Department. I retired from LAPD Rampart Division in the 80′s. At that time it was the best division in the city. The so called Rampart scandal was caused by one individual officer, and a Chief of Police who chose to believe a convicted felon over his own officers. A few officers involved with Perez were convicted of some infractions, but he was the only one who went to jail. Bernard Parks was the worst possible choice to be Chief of Police, the Commission could have selected. It is noteworthy that blacks comprise only 7% of L.A.’s population, but seemed to require the city to have two black chiefs of police. Politics do indeed make strange bedfellows. I know Charly Beck and he will make a great Chief. I agree that Bratton was good for the Department.

]]> By: irwin Copper http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-439490 irwin Copper Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:00:35 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-439490 For some, cops will do no right and that is their belief. That's a fine point of view for the paranoid cop hater, but one that is not firmly based in reality, at least not in Los Angeles. Too bad the comments are not about the subject of the article instead of petty, uninformed bias back and forth. The LA Times and the ACLU are hardly organizations one should reference when attempting to sway an audience that is interested in unbiased fact, not innuendo and half-truths. For some, cops will do no right and that is their belief. That’s a fine point of view for the paranoid cop hater, but one that is not firmly based in reality, at least not in Los Angeles. Too bad the comments are not about the subject of the article instead of petty, uninformed bias back and forth. The LA Times and the ACLU are hardly organizations one should reference when attempting to sway an audience that is interested in unbiased fact, not innuendo and half-truths.

]]> By: DavidN http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-439165 DavidN Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:46:08 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-439165 Tim in Philly: The Rampart police scandal was a mess in various ways. There are various versions of what happened, essentially depending on your point of view. Police critics believed that the cops were killing innocent civilians, and framing them for drug crimes they didn't commit. The problem, however, is that the whole thing stemmed from the arrest of one dirty cop, who had about 5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk of his car. He immediately began to assert that every arrest he'd made, and many made by other cops in his precinct, were deliberate frames or rigged with phony warrants and the like. Ultimately, one or two of his colleagues were arrested, but several others were exonerated. I know someone who worked with one of them, and my friend assures me the guy isn't dirty. It appears as if the original dirty cop was just talking to try and reduce his own sentence (successfully: last I heard the local DA was trying to get him out of jail for "time served"). Tim in Philly:

The Rampart police scandal was a mess in various ways. There are various versions of what happened, essentially depending on your point of view. Police critics believed that the cops were killing innocent civilians, and framing them for drug crimes they didn’t commit. The problem, however, is that the whole thing stemmed from the arrest of one dirty cop, who had about 5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk of his car. He immediately began to assert that every arrest he’d made, and many made by other cops in his precinct, were deliberate frames or rigged with phony warrants and the like. Ultimately, one or two of his colleagues were arrested, but several others were exonerated. I know someone who worked with one of them, and my friend assures me the guy isn’t dirty. It appears as if the original dirty cop was just talking to try and reduce his own sentence (successfully: last I heard the local DA was trying to get him out of jail for “time served”).

]]> By: Tim in Philly http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-438777 Tim in Philly Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:56:54 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-438777 Also for your information Ed, Philly has been boted for corruption since Lincoln was president. It was also run by republicas from 1890ish until 1940ish when people finally got tired of the scumbag republicans and replaced them with scumbag democrats. Try learning a little history. I know it must be hard to learn anything when you have a pin-head, but at least try. Also for your information Ed, Philly has been boted for corruption since Lincoln was president. It was also run by republicas from 1890ish until 1940ish when people finally got tired of the scumbag republicans and replaced them with scumbag democrats. Try learning a little history. I know it must be hard to learn anything when you have a pin-head, but at least try.

]]> By: Tim Mayhugh http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-438771 Tim Mayhugh Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:53:00 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-438771 Hey Ed O'Shea, At least I know who my mother was you in-bred slack-jawed ass huffer. I don't hate cops. I hate bad cops. Unfortunately that is most of them. Check out David Codrea's "Only Ones" file to get a taste of how the blue clad scum "protect & serve" the citizens of our nation. Hey Ed O’Shea, At least I know who my mother was you in-bred slack-jawed ass huffer. I don’t hate cops. I hate bad cops. Unfortunately that is most of them. Check out David Codrea’s “Only Ones” file to get a taste of how the blue clad scum “protect & serve” the citizens of our nation.

]]> By: Ed O'Shea http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-438756 Ed O'Shea Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:25:25 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-438756 Hey Tim in Philly, why don't you go suck start a cheese steak sandwich, topped with some broken glass and road salt, you stain. Then go S#!t in your fist! Philly is curruopt because a bunch of bed wetting, currupt Democrats have been running that city for far to long! Frank Rizzo probably humped Philly's old lady, and now he hates cops. Don't go away mad, jag-off, just go away! Hey Tim in Philly, why don’t you go suck start a cheese steak sandwich, topped with some broken glass and road salt, you stain. Then go S#!t in your fist! Philly is curruopt because a bunch of bed wetting, currupt Democrats have been running that city for far to long! Frank Rizzo probably humped Philly’s old lady, and now he hates cops. Don’t go away mad, jag-off, just go away!

]]> By: urbanleftbehind http://pjmedia.com/blog/identity-politics-brushed-aside-in-lapd-chief-selection/#comment-438670 urbanleftbehind Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:00:20 +0000 http://pajamasmedia.com/?p=71157#comment-438670 Mr. Beck must be thinking "getting the tan and grooming the mustache paid off!!! - all I needed was the banda suit if there was a third interview." Mr. Beck must be thinking “getting the tan and grooming the mustache paid off!!! – all I needed was the banda suit if there was a third interview.”

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