[Avoiding_Sulla]

Mojave comment 64: “The City of Los Angeles is Chief Bratton and LAPD.”

Mojave comment 73: “Then your inability to distinguish between the city and the county is strange, to say the least.”

Uh, Mojave — the current LAPD chief is Charlie Beck, and it “is strange to say the least” that you blew that.

C_O has lived in the Santa Cruz area for about 20 years, and does amazingly well despite that terrible handicap. What’s your excuse?

Never mind, I hope you get my point. Sometimes when we cast stones we don’t realize we ourselves may live in glass houses.

[Mojave]

the current LAPD chief is Charlie Beck

And how does that make Los Angeles County Sheriff Baca responsible for the policies of the City of Los Angeles LAPD policies towards illegal aliens under Bratton and Beck, or of the Sanctuary City status that was in place under both Bratton and Beck?

[Carry_Okie]

The idea that I have some inability to distinguish a city and a county is absurd on its face. There is a hugely important legal distinction between the Sheriff and the Chief of Police:

The Sheriff is the chief law enforcement officer in the jurisdiction, period, State and Federal law notwithstanding. The reason is not commonly understood, but should be, because it is rooted in common law dating back to the Magna Carta and before: The Sheriff was appointed by the Sovereign. In America, the Sovereign is the people who elect the Sheriff.

There are cases throughout the rural West where County Sheriffs have ejected enforcing agents of the Federal Government, usually representing BLM, USFS, or Fish and Wildlife.

This is why Baca's choice to enforce Federal law over the State that charters the County in the first place is so interesting. It sets a very odd precedent.

As to you Mojave, your impenetrable centric has proven itself beneath contention:

Clear as an unmuddied lake, Av.
As clear as an azure sky of deepest summer.