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October 26, 2009
Idiocy: LA Cops Give Gangbangers Plenty of Warning Before Raids
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at October 26, 2009 9:29 AM
The LAPD ran an operation recently involving SWAT Teams, uniformed officers, undercover cops, and Federal agencies aiming to round up 74 dangerous gang leaders and members. They caught 47 of them. Jack Dunphy reports on the probable reason the other 27 got away (edited for brevity).
It came as something of a surprise to officers assigned to the operation Thursday morning that the command post had been set up in a parking lot at the corner of two of the busiest thoroughfares in South Los Angeles, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Figueroa Street. Worse, this intersection marks the northeast boundary of the area claimed by the Rollin' 40 Crips gang the operation was targeting. Assembled there was an array of command post vehicles from the LAPD and the FBI, hundreds of marked and unmarked police cars as well as SWAT trucks and armored cars. Any fool could have driven by and known that something big was about to go down in the neighborhood.
It got worse. At around three in the morning, operation supervisors gathered for a briefing from one of the captains in charge. Using a P.A. system that could be heard for blocks -- most assuredly in the apartment complex that overlooks the parking lot, an apartment complex where members of the Rollin’ 40 Crips happen to reside -- the captain gave an outline of the operation, even naming the targeted gang and the exact time officers would be serving the warrants. ... Given the warning that had been broadcast to the neighborhood, it’s surprising that even one of them was found at home.
Two of the captains in charge of the operation are on the short list for promotion to police chief by narcissistic, philandering , reconquista-supporting Mayor Antonio Vallaraigosa. Fortunately for them, the selection of police chief will owe more to politics than competence.
Comments
This is just symptomatic of the state of law enforcement in this country.
Law enforcement went from protecting and serving to its own pork barrel appropriation in favor of powerful public employee unions. Our Federal government is throwing people in prison for two years for having disorderly paperwork on imported orchids. Our legislators earmark billions of dollars for equipment and special task forces that haven't been shown to reduce crime. The unions love the toys and triple-pay overtime that government pork brings.
Who got the shaft? The citizens, who are now less safe and more taxed, and the regular beat cops, whose commitment to actually reducing crime has been overshadowed by shameful pork barrel spending in the name of law enforcement.
You can't shower money on law enforcement and expect crime to drop, if law enforcement has been preempted by bloated bureaucracies and empty campaign slogans. Effective law enforcement requires a commitment to enforcing the law, which can never be appropriated in a spending bill. Sadly, the citizens of Los Angeles suffer from ineffective law enforcement that allows criminals to pass through a revolving door justice system while criminal aliens freely walk the streets.
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at October 26, 2009 10:12 AM
Just as rediculous as urging people to exchange their guns for giftcards,flowers,cash,tickets or stupid musical interments I mean its just plain bumbling incomepetence
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at October 26, 2009 11:30 AM
LAPD freaks out America with new Orwellian ad
The LAPD has just released a new Orwellian commercial for iWatch, a program that encourages residents to spy on each other and report any “suspicious behavior” (whatever that means) to the authorities, who we’re assured will sort everything out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrs1DD0EbYc&feature=player_embedded
Posted by: Bill at October 26, 2009 1:04 PM
The full article for LAPD iWatch is at this link http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2009/10/24/lapd-freaks-out-america-with-new-orewellian-ad/
Posted by: Bill at October 26, 2009 1:11 PM
Like all the lies about american guns smoggled into mexico and OBAMA was the biggist liar as well as the NEW YORK SLIMES, and the mexican diplomat on GMA
Posted by: Flu-Bird at October 26, 2009 2:01 PM
As Sgt. Stedenko says, "Suspects lost... due to total incompetence."
Posted by: Henry at October 26, 2009 2:12 PM
Sheriff Joe Arpeio wouldnt ever allow this to happen
Posted by: Rockin Robin at October 26, 2009 9:08 PM
