Comments on: L.A.’s New Top Cop: ‘Conservative’ on Crime, ‘Progressive’ in His Policing?

By: james

james — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 17:55:23 +0000

Where liberalism lives, things die. Los Angeles is obviously no exception.
Say goodnight, Mr. Beck.

By: I. M. Copper

I. M. Copper — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:57:19 +0000

With the selection of Charlie Beck, it suggests merit may actually have a place in government today, at least with this highly visible political appointment. His competence and adoration for the officers, organization, and community are genuine and I believe without self-service in mind. With a fiscal crisis, more cops, and less crime than in the last fifty years, it suggests that his challenges with only increase with each day at the helm. One cannot please all of the people all of the time, but he can please the community and his organization with continuing to act with integrity, transparency, and above all – Leadership! Good luck!

By: deguello

deguello — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:55:13 +0000

If you are a middleclass person still living in LA,or any third world city in the USA,you deserve what they get by way of libtard govt.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:56:08 +0000

Good analysis Jack. I’m a 19-yr veteran and we can handle the challenge of more crooks on the streets if the “kids” (young cops with less than 5 yrs on the Dept.) can handle it. Most of them are great kids who are going to have great careers. Some of them need to make another career choice, because they suck at this one. They’re accustomed to a slower pace of work. When the call load picks up (as it inevitably will) they’ll have to work harder and faster. Those who enjoy hard work will adjust and those who don’t will stand there with a confused “What the hell just happened? look on their faces.

By: Bill Gannon

Bill Gannon — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:08:29 +0000

Good analysis and gloomy – but probably accurate – prognostication. Best wishes to CB, his mustache and his troops. And who could ever rely on chippies to hold a perimeter? They might miss their latte reservation.

By: ricpic

ricpic — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:13:25 +0000

A complete farce that we now know what makes for effective policing, beyond a shadow of a doubt, but won’t practice effective policing because it “discriminates.”

By: Elroy Fan

Elroy Fan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:01:44 +0000

Beck is white, but his moustache is 100% Mexican-American.

By: DavidN

DavidN — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:32:09 +0000

1. NCBob:

I used to live in LA and still have a passing interest on what goes on out there. While I’ve seen no proof, I can’t believe LA would appoint a non-black as CoP. Is Beck black or white?

He’s white. This is why I found the whole process somewhat amazing: all *3* of the final candidates for the position were white guys, even the unfortunately named Michael Moore. As an aside, when I first heard Michael Moore was going to be LAPD chief, my reaction was that his only qualification was an obvious ability to consume donuts.

So when I saw the list of final candidates, saw the choice, and watched a black police commission head (John Mack) and a Latino mayor (Villaraigosa) praise this white guy, I felt that the selection process must have been less political than it has been in the past. Bratton was obviously chosen for unusual skills (as “Dunphy” notes) and he performed as expected.

As for the police committing homicides comment, I’m sure it happened a few times, but I doubt it was that widespread. Even back then people would get caught, and with the advances in science we do occasionally catch criminals years, even decades after their crimes. A guy was busted not too long ago for killing two cops in 1957; LAPD recently arrested one of their own art theft detectives, because she allegedly killed a romantic rival two decades or so ago. If it had been widespread, there would be lots of people (or cops) getting arrested now…

By: white tiger

white tiger — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:16:01 +0000

Nat Turner, “chippie”?, is, by his own statement, either a liar or a criminal.
If he has all this wonderful evidence of homicides, assaults, etc., on minority persons by LAPD officers, why has he never reported even one such instance?
And, Chippies are citation writers, not real cops. In terms of TV personas, they are only Eric Estradas; not Jack Webbs.

In LA there is a thin Blue line which separates the good folks from the bad guys. Libel, slander, denigrate that Line, and you create a jungle of criminal chaos. And the next time you really need a cop, you might as well call a hippie.
When you pin on that tin target, and set out to “protect and serve”, you expect to have to bang it out with the perps. But the slimeballs who will really do you in are those who lie about you, institute false charges, demean you continually, hoping to structure that demonic chaos of which they are so fond. Punks who love to make accusations they cannot begin to prove.
Cop-haters, in love with every known perversion.

By: nat turner

nat turner — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:56:01 +0000

Ask any former CHP about the dark days of LAPD . If you didn’t have at least a beat down on a minority to hide , you could not be trusted . Police committing homicides were not at all rare .