It would be easier to take the one bad apple approach if there was any hint of policing their own. The LAPDs response to both incidents has been to excuse the behavior. When the LEOs involved are fired and charged by the DA in the same manner that I would be, I’ll start considering it a one bad apple issue (or several bad apples). However, based on the facts, it appears to be an LAPD problem.
The underlying problem that Freepers have in these police stories is the lack of self policing. If you had done what they did, you would be in jail and facing real prison time. It should bother you that the public statements of the LAPD read like they are talking a small misunderstanding.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck will provide a new truck to two women injured by officers in pursuit of fugitive ex-cop Christopher Jordan Dorner, a police spokesman said Saturday. Margie Carranza, 47, and her mother, Emma Hernandez, 71, were delivering newspapers in Torrance early Thursday when LAPD officers riddled their blue Toyota Tacoma with bullets. Hernandez was shot twice in the back, and Carranza sustained minor injuries from broken glass. Beck has called the incident “a tragic misinterpretation” by officers working under "incredible tension” hours after Dorner allegedly shot three police officers, one fatally.
Is it your oppinion that the incident was intentional?