Posted on 08/05/2009 11:38:20 AM PDT by Welcome2thejungle
This just in from Yahoo: LAPD William Bratton is stepping down as chief of the LAPD. Bratton is part of the problem with big city policing these days. There was a time when Los Angeles had one of the best and toughest big city police departments in the entire nation. The legendary police chief, William Parker, molded the LAPD into a tough, no nonsense crime fighting machine, and apolitical at that. Parker was followed by some very able and professional chiefs as well including Ed Davis and Daryl Gates who worked to keep the department highly professional and independent of political intrusion.
The Rodney King incident changed everything. Of course King was high on PCP and resisting arrest when the police officers were forced to TASER him and use physical force to finally subdue after a lengthy police chase. Unfortunately the incident was videotaped and released to the public. This was just the excuse the liberal mayor (Tom Bradley) and the City Council needed to get rid of Chief Gates who always defended and stood up for his officers and worked tirelessly to keep the LAPD independent and free of political machinations.
The liberals succeeded in taking over the LAPD and basically turning it into a social services institution not unlike the welfare department. The police have been basically handcuffed by ridiculous ordinances such as Special Order 40 which prohibits officers from even asking if a suspect is in this country legally--this in a city overwhelmed and overrun by illegal aliens.
Chief Gates was succeeded by a series of sychophantic political chiefs including Bratton who loves the political game and routinely endorses politicians including BHO for president. Several years ago there was an incident on the Communist holiday of May Day when illegal aliens were rioting in MacArthur Park demanding their "rights". They threw rocks and other objects at the police officers. When the officers fired back with tear gas, they were charged with wrong doing, suspended, and ordered to apologize. Rather than stand up for his officers, Chief Bratton threw them under the bus.
Los Angeles is an example of a truly great city that has been systemically ruined by liberals. The police department has been castrated. Illegal aliens have trashed the place. Gang graffiti is all over the place and businesses continue flee the city.
There are local cable stations that cover public hearings in the City Council. I usually tune into this channel for laughs. Very rarely are serious issues discussed such as law enforcement and job creation and you constantly see a truly bizarre assortment of freaks and eccentrics speaking before the Council. Never a serious discussion on how to attract businesses or what to do about the continuing influx of illegal aliens who are overcrowding and overwhelming our schools, jails, roads, and hospitals. Even mentioned illegal immigration in LA you are branded a racist.
But what the liberals have done to LA and California is now being done to the nation as a whole with BHO, Reid, and Pelosi at the helm. I ways hoping the rest of the nation would learn from and avoid California's ruinous mistakes. Now, the only difference between Sacramento and Washington is this: In Sacramento they are spending billions of dollars we don't have. In Washington they are spending trillions of dollars we don't have. And of course BHO & Co. will not lift a finger to stop the invasion of illegal aliens across our borders. We're all in the same boat now, like it or not.
Bratton’s announcement came as a very pleasant surprise. I was a volunteer in robbery-homicide at the end of the Daryl Gates reign — most officers loved Gates — had great respect for him.
Bratton — eh, not so much — that other fool before him who is now a councilman, of all things, was really unloved, what was his name?
It’s well known that Bratton and Giuliani butted heads a lot back in NY. I note that Bratton will indeed return to NY but to the private sector, to head up some security company.
New York, you are welcome to have Bratton back!!!
Whew! I was afraid he was resigning to pursue higher political office in CA, maybe in a new Jerry Brown administration. We've got enough problems on the state level here without Bratton too!
What was so great about Bradley? Sam Yorty was the last best mayor LA had.
That would be your opinion, not mine. LOL
Again, I ask what was so great about Mayor Bradley? I believe Special Order 40 was passed on his watch.
The city council is being run by police-hating Leftists like Danny Baker who went from street agitator to ruling the LAPD. It’s disgusting, disheartening and mirrors Washington. Soon our country will look exactly like downtown Los Angeles.
Brstton is just another gun grabbing tyrant who should be banned from any position of power!
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
“Wasn’t Bratton the one who told Californians, “If you don’t like illegal immigration, leave the state”?”
I believe you are correct. Terry Anderson plays that clip once in a while.
So who will take Bratton’s place?
Bratton was more of a brown nosing politician kissing up to our little caudillo, Alcalde Don Juan Villaraigosa, the little POS running around the city bedding down every reporter in sight.
Well, its nice to seem him go. I wonder what city police force he’s going to screw up now? Or is he going to run for some office and work on screwing up entire cities?
I wonder what Jack Dunphy at NRO will have to say?
Yes I heard this on the radio...
Aint it great ???
Bye Bye you illegal alien lovin’ traitor...
Tough place to work in.
GangLand.
Good luck to his successor.
Off the top of my head, crime went down, employment went up, the economy in LA quadrupled, we got more police, and they got real support, total revitalization of the rat infested downtown, homeless people were stripped of their “carte blanche” entitlements, we got the Olympics, we became the 2nd largest City in the nation with a crime rate less than the other top 5.
Look, I’m a Conservative, he wasn’t. Neither was Yorty, unless you accept his 11th hour “conversion” just prior to the 73 elections (I didn’t and still don’t), he (Bradley) was the right guy, at the right time-a moderate who actually moved us to the right. But, the succeeding administrations dropped the ball, as if they had any intention of running with it in the first place.
I’ll bet you liked Riordan, too. :)
BTW, if you like LA history, look up failed petitions. I’m the guy that tried, and failed, to get County residents the vote in the city Mayor elections in 78 & 79. LOL
Bradley was a horrible mayor; one of the worst — voted in because bleeding hearts thought it would be cool to have a black mayor. End of story.
Willie Williams was chief before Bratton.
Do you have a link to a news article or is this your own writing?
Could you please post a link? Thanks.
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