Posted on 11/28/2011 3:46:42 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Joseph Wambaugh solves the great UC Davis pepper-spraying incident
Forget hiring Bill Bratton. You can learn all you need to know by reading the papers.
In light of the terrible financial crisis at our California universities, I feel the need to rescue UC Davis, whose administrators are, according to The Times, negotiating a price with the Kroll security firm in New York for none other than former LAPD Chief Bill Bratton to fly West and tell us what went wrong on the day that students were pepper sprayed. I can save the university a hefty Kroll consulting fee by suggesting that the administrators carefully peruse a few of the newspaper articles of the past week and all will be revealed to them.
They might start with Wednesday's hilarious Times photo of a student in a porkpie hat and bandanna mask mau-mauing the earnest but obviously flummoxed UC Davis chancellor, Linda Katehi, who actually seems to be recording the lad's rant. The bandanna mask suggests he's in full-on guerrilla mode and fears being seized and waterboarded by hooded men in a dank police station basement.
An assistant professor of English at UC Davis was quoted in The Times as saying that the pepper-spray incident was simply the latest example of "the systematic use of police brutality by UC chancellors" to suppress protests. Well, when I was an LAPD cop, I majored in English at Cal State L.A., and I can affirm that assistant professors of English claim all sorts of weird things after having been driven loopy by too much Elizabethan poetry. The UC Davis campus cops as serial brutes? I thought they just wrote tickets and attached wheel locks to illegally parked cars.
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LOL! Wambaugh has a way with words. I’ve read almost all, if not all, of his books and have gotten a lot of laughs out of them.
He has a new series about the cops of Hollywood div.
His writing is still great. His new group of cops are strange,crazy,funny, and oh so human.
It’s what the Oracle would do.
He has a new series about the cops of Hollywood div.
His writing is still great. His new group of cops are strange,crazy,funny, and oh so human.
I thought he had retired. Glad I saw this thread.
Darn it Joe. Quit wasting your time on this Op-Ed stuff and churn out another novel. Big,big fan of Wambaugh’s sense of humor. Love his books.
“and I can affirm that assistant professors of English claim all sorts of weird things after having been driven loopy by too much Elizabethan poetry.”
What a marvelous statement. :)
“and I can affirm that assistant professors of English claim all sorts of weird things after having been driven loopy by too much Elizabethan poetry.”
What a marvelous statement. :)
“and I can affirm that assistant professors of English claim all sorts of weird things after having been driven loopy by too much Elizabethan poetry.”
What a marvelous statement. :)
Sorry for the multiple posts.
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