Comments on: LAPD on Edge: Who Will Be the Next Police Chief?

By: Curtis Lemanski

Curtis Lemanski — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:45:53 +0000

To correct some inaccuracies in the otherwise well-written article, the briefing was not given over a loudspeaker. I was standing thirty yards away and could not hear it. The task force got over 70% of the suspects they were looking for that morning. I’ll admit, I’d probably have chosen a different location for the briefing, but this did not diminish the success of the operation in the least. The FBI will be talking about this take down around the water cooler for years to come. I think it was one of the most successful LAPD/FBI joint task forces (without the use of a wire) ever.

However, there is definitely a schism between rank-and-file and brass. What the department needed was an LAPD verion of former US Marine Corps Commandant General Gray.

Let’s see if Chief Beck can steer this ship through the storm that’s just about to hit the coast.

By: TW in OC

TW in OC — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 03:07:59 +0000

NahnCee: “Hinky” – Where’d you learn that word? Thanks

By: Paul

Paul — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:17:32 +0000

Detroit is LA’s, and others future. From New Jersey, in a triangle, up the coast into Maine, and across the Great Lakes to Chicago, and back across the Appalachia are hundreds of dead, welfare cities that once were productive cities.

These were all built by physical workers, masons, carpenters, with steel workers, mill workers, manufactures, mills and build/make shops of all kind.

All gone. And the ethos that these men took to their graves.

LA’s manufacturing, furniture, aircraft…almost all gone.

Now cities are open air welfare plantations. Cops are the civil wardens. Once hand in hand with working class ethos, now but muscle for the administrative welfare state and it’s every, by each generation, morally and ethically devolving mobs.

No one cares about the tactical problems of the police. You take the coin, you do the bidding. Sorry. History is fair and clear. The admin state will continue to grow. That is the future. I’d say a nation our size has a good hundred years growth of Mandarins, administrators, paper shufflers, coat holders, flacks, hacks.

By: Kieth Moreland

Kieth Moreland — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:57:27 +0000

I sit, 1000 miles away, absolutely amazed at the three finalists for the LAPD COP job. None appear to be chosen, as I described in my previous post, merely to cater to minority and women’s groups. These three guys are, for the most part, pretty solid leaders, movers, and shakers. Any one of them could get the job done and get the street cops on board with them. Congratulations to the Police Commissioners who have made, IMO, the right choices for the final candidates for the job. Now, if only the mayor will do the right thing for all….the cops, the city, the people…not just what will get his mug on TV.

By: NoNonSense IN LA

NoNonSense IN LA — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:56:01 +0000

Bratton, THX! Dont let the door hit your a@% on the way out……..

GOD BLESS THE REAL MEN & WOMEN OF THE L.A.P.D.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:22:03 +0000

Personally, I am sick of hearing how Bratton has been such a crime fighting hero. It is the men and women of the department that fight crime. All he has done is tell you how great he is. He eliminated programs such as DARE and dismissed training for his Metro Officers. Instead of standing behind his men at May Day, he took a political stance to ensure his reappointment only to now leave the job when it’s going to get a little tough with the budget. His treatment of his command staff has been deplorable with his fist pounding tirades at every meeting telling them that he wants nothing to do with LAPD tradition. He has rid the department of excellent Deputy Chiefs who could actually lead the rank and file and had their respect. Bratton needs to take his big ego back to the east coast, write the book he came here to write, and lets hope he stays there this time.

By: John-LAPD RETIRED

John-LAPD RETIRED — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:40:34 +0000

NanhCee you wrote “I would love to know how all of the candidates would answer the question, “do you think there is a planned program of genocide between Mexicans against blacks in Los Angeles, and if so, what do you plan to do about it?”

I guess the state is so borke they cut off all your psyc meds-don’t worry send me your tele[hone number I understand Doctor Phil works for free!

Part of Los Angeles problems stem from “race baiters” who juts love to keep tensions hyped up-like John Mack! This way they have a job and pander to radical activisit in the LA Communities! This gives them a voice-just look at that thug who calls himself an “activisit” yet he was convicted for Robbery during the riots of 1992!

By: John-LAPD Retired

John-LAPD Retired — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:30:32 +0000

Dear Fred Suggs,

I saw your “remarks” about “disablity” and LAPD and “helping CALIFORNIA out” This is an insult and a joke! I got my back broken in 2001 when I was chasing a gangmember with a gun across Victory Blvd at Coldwater, and one of LA “wonderful Ciztens” hit me dead in the street, knocked me to the ground and kept right on going! I was in FULL uniform. The your “wonderful city” took me to Sherman Oaks ER and did some BS X-ray and missed the fractures at T11 and T12! The sent me home with some glorified asprin. A year later I lost all feeling in my hands and legs-then it was too late! It was NON correctable-the cities soultion vicoden 750′s for life and a misrable pension! This was the 3rd time I had been hit by a car in the line of duty. The first time my partner was hit and he lost BOTH HIS LEGS! That was at Manchester and Broadway in 1986. Add to my injuries I have ruptured discs from c1 to c7, torn shoulder muscles and roatator cuffs, and a colesteral level of over 300 with med’s! Yet, due to your wondeful state I could not even afford to live on my pension when the city decided to retire me!

HELP THE STATE!!! I Bled for your state and city-THANK GOD I have atleast lived to tell about it. It was not me who drove the “Peoples Republic of California” into a ditch and on the verg of fiscal collaps! You can thank yourself first becuase you as a voter put those loosers like Smilen Tony into elected office and you keep them in office by re-electing them. If you wanna “help the state” look at States like Texas and ask “why do they have a 9 million dollar surplus in a reccession and california is broke?” Why did they spend 500,000.00 in Los Angeles for a monster “art” form when they were gonna lay off 800 city workers? HELP THE STATE-WAKE UP AND GET REAL!

This artical should be a “warning” to people like you-but you mock it and the service guys like me have made for YOU! Jack is telling you to watch you back-yet you sit and “bash him” and all of us who have the guts to take on one of the worst jobs in the City of LA! Insted of mocking honorable men and women you should drop to your knees every night before bed and pray to God they place themselves in harms way while you sleep warmly and safely in your bed!

By: paul_unalaska

paul_unalaska — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:45:23 +0000

Next Chief.. it’s got to be a usurper to Mayor V’s ‘vision’.

One in which L.A. County alone will steal, err, collect $2 billion dollars this coming year in welfare to children of illegal immigrants. Not the measly + $1 billion it does today.

http://antonovich.co.la.ca.us/Pages/Press%20Releases/09/August/Welfare%20costs%20081109.html

Dare to dream, right Mayor V?

By: DEGUELLO

DEGUELLO — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:05:54 +0000

I NOMINATE RODNEY KING. NO REALLY, FOLKS,THIS IS CLOWNIFORNIA WHERE A MUSCLEBOUND TROGLODYTE,IS GOVERNOR,A CHILD RAPIST IS A LOCAL HERO,AND THEIR MOST FAMOUS REPRESENTATIVE, IS A HUMAN TESTBED FOR BOTOX.MR. KING WILL FIT RIGHT IN.