The joke goes that a Times editor is asked about diversity at his paper: He indignantly replies that the Times employs black lefties, Jewish lefties, gay lefties, white lefties…
Kudos to Jack on his analysis. Since I joined the LAPD in 1980, the Times has enjoyed a cozy relationship with LA’s corrupt forces (Bradley, Hahn, Villar, ACLU, UTLA, Garcetti, etc.) for reasons that parallel Al Jazeera’s relationship with Hezbollah and Al Qaeda. As long as the LAPD is busy chasing its tail we can’t snoop around a corrupt mayor or his criminal friends. Why else would an LA moyor appoint an East Coast police chief or a convicted con-man’s son (Rick Caruso) be appointed president of the Police Commission? (Rick parlayed his father’s ill-gotten gains into quite a career.)
During the early 1990s, the Times had no problem trashing my name with false charges on Page One. After the judge and prosecutors were found guilty of violating my civil rights a year later, they forget to mention that the prosecutor who Nifonged me was elevated to judge. My exoneration ended up near the obits.
I retired in 2000 because the dirtbags and felons I met on the street weren’t nearly as dangerous as the politicians I worked for, or as depraved as the Times editorial staff that make sport of destroying good cops.
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve fully recovered my life and I’m one of the very few retired cops who live in LA. I plan to stick around until the paper of record finally collapses. Thank God for Jack Dunphy, talk radio, and credible Internet sources like Pajamas Media.
One more thing Jack – don’t tell anyone who you are. The LAPD and city management doesn’t care about quaint notions like the First Amendment.
