AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu, File It would be comical if the results weren’t so deadly and far-reaching.
A story in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times ran under the headline, “ Inside an LAPD crime briefing: Homicides, ‘hood days’ and the ‘compounding’ violence .” Maybe, just maybe, I thought as I started reading, we’ll finally get some honest talk about crime in the L.A. Times . Silly me.
Times writer Kevin Rector was invited to attend one of LAPD Chief Michel Moore’s weekly command-level crime briefings, where it was pointed out to Police Commissioner Dale Bonner, one of the five members of the civilian commission, that homicides in the city are up 17% over 2020 and 49% over 2019.
Nowhere in the article—and we may assume it wasn’t discussed—is there mention of the biggest factor driving this surge in violence: the demoralization of police officers due to the craven political pandering that followed […]
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