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If they'd have gotten clobbered they not only may have just lost their jobs in the short term, but possibly not ever reopened again. That was a risk they wanted to avert so the better option in their minds was to go to work and defend it if they had to. Some of the higher-ups in the office chose to stay and camp out there, so it was occupied and watched around the clock.

 

 

[Spktyr]

I’ve run into a surprising number of LA expats that were in a similar situation back in 1992. That scenario isn’t uncommon among them.

I’ve also run into some of the rank and file LAPD officers from then too; now retired, they’d moved elsewhere and I’ve had some good discussions with them about what happened from their point of view. It was about what I figured - leadership told them not to go in even though they wanted to and were willing to take the risk. LA City government was extremely risk averse and kept hoping it would burn out by itself.

It does seem like most of us bailed from LA either directly due to the Riots or the woefully mishandled aftermath.