Posted on 01/03/2008 2:12:43 PM PST by dragnet2
Big problem up here are the young adults who were born in the crack epidemic and the "second baby boom" that seemed to occur in the Section 8's in the 1990s despite welfare reform. Most of these folks are native born.
Thanks.
Your welcome. Your post was accurate and right on target in regards to why this has occurred. Specifically California’s mandatory minimum sentencing guide lines and 3 strikes.
Yes. And when he left, Rudy remained and crime continued to go down.
This is the same Bratton who when asked on LA Radio "why his officers refused to arrest illegal immigrants ..." (special order 40). Bratton angrily told the caller " the LAPD is out of the immigration business and if the caller did not like it the caller could leave the state ..."
This is just months after this carpet bagger hits town he's publically telling Los Angeles taxpayers that if they expect the LAPD to do the job they are paid to do then get the hell out of the state!
Bratton is an ass.
Regards
That's a fact Jack! I wonder what the Riverside murder numbers are like these days.
Regards
This is the same Bratton who when asked on LA Radio “why his officers refused to arrest illegal immigrants ...” (special order 40). Bratton angrily told the caller “ the LAPD is out of the immigration business and if the caller did not like it the caller could leave the state ...”
This is just months after this carpet bagger hits town he’s publicly telling Los Angeles taxpayers that if they expect the LAPD to do the job they are paid to do then get the hell out of the state!
Bratton is an ass.
Regards
As a former contractor for a large municipal PD, I learned about Bratton's excellent use of data technology when he was in NY and formed a high opinion of his management skills from that point of view. Your description of his illegals-coddling is new info for me, and it's a definite turn-off. Thanks.
I lived in Dallas for 6 years and it's a great town to live in if you are single and making a little money. Just have to stay away from SOC and the area around Baylor Med Center near downtown.
I agree with the post earlier that mentioned 3 strikes and full sentencing. That when you lock up criminals and throw away the key...... well heck. Your crime rate goes down.
You bet. Thanks to California’s mandatory minimum sentencing guide lines and 3 strikes law. Should have been implemented nation wide.
Now if we could only start executing the brutal murderers. Of course we put Tookie Williams to bed not long ago.
I guess for now we'll have to settle for locking them in cages.
And I never liked the department going outside of it's ranks to fill that position. It was a pure political decision.
Good question, one that we both probably know the answer to.
Recently I have tried to explain to some members that LA major crime is way down and has considerably less crime than most major cities in others states. Some just refused to believe.
Has anyone recently checked out Harbor City, San Pedro, Wilmington and Harbor Gateway?
Forty years ago, when Samuel W.Yorty, one of the last conservative Democrats, was mayor, Los Angeles enjoyed low unemployment as well as low housing costs—as noted by the pop singer Neil Diamond in his 1971 hit record, “I am, I Said.” Crime was also kept at a relatively low rate by an efficient police department led by tough, no-nonsense police chiefs such as William H. Parker, Tom Reddin, and Ed Davis.
After Tom Bradley, a left-leaning Democrat, ousted Yorty in 1973, one of his first acts was to cut funding for the police department. One doesn’t need a Ph. D. in social science to figure out what would follow.
led by tough, no-nonsense police chiefs such as William H. Parker
Speaking of Bill Parker, I met him and he let me sit at his desk while he was the Chief. At the time Daryl Gates was his personal driver. I think I was all of 14 at the time. Big changes since that period.
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