[NormsRevenge]

One of the finest fighting forces of the FRee World.. doing ride-a-longs to give them some street savvy..

Good idea.

[RFEngineer]

“One of the finest fighting forces of the FRee World.. doing ride-a-longs to give them some street savvy..

Good idea.”

Why not have the LAPD train the Afghans?

[dljordan]

“One of the finest fighting forces of the FRee World.. doing ride-a-longs to give them some street savvy..”

Get out of the car mother****er, cross your hands on top of your head, shut up a**hole, don’t talk to me, zzzzt! zzzzt! thump! thump! thump! Everyone went home safe. :)

[wolfpat]

When are we going to get out of that quagmire that is South Central Los Angeles? Too many brave men have lost their lives there!

[TokuMei]

"People are the center of gravity and if you do everything you can to protect them, then they'll protect you,"

Unless you break into the wrong apt & needlessly shoot the dogs, in which case they'll sue you.

[null and void]

LAPD as teachers?

This can’t end well.

[ReneeLynn]

Oh, brother! Are we supposed to be delighted that LA is being on par with fighting terrorists in Afghanistan? Does anyone see the tragedy in this? Nevermind perhaps some comedy. Wanna teach Marines how to train Afghan police to fight the Taliban? Take them to LA. There’s a terrific awfulness about that.

[conimbricenses]

NOT a good idea by any stretch. Most US police departments are big on heavy handed SWAT-style practices that breed animosity and cause the civilian population to feel like they are being occupied.

A friend of mine is an ex Army Ranger who was one of the very first guys we had on the ground in Afghanistan back in '02. He says the reason we were so successful there at first is that we identified the resistance fighters to the incumbent Taliban regime and worked with them without stomping on their turf. A few months later the regulars came in with lots of reservists who are cops in their day jobs. He said in addition to generally being know-it-all a$$holes that the special ops professionals quickly grew to resent, these cop-type reservists generally didn't care about developing a relationship with the locals and instead tried to police them like they were policing the ghetto back at home. The result: kicking in doors, roughing up families while searching for a "suspect," and generally irritating the locals so they all hate us now and resent us just like they resented the Taliban.

I cannot imagine that bringing in LAPD will make this situation any better. America has a serious illness with its police culture and the way it does law enforcement in general. It's an illness here at home and it's a recipe for resentment if we export it abroad.