Breaking News - Police Commission Appointments
Good morning everyone, the “other chief” is also checking in with all you blowhards via e-mail.--------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chief of Staff
Date: Jul 14, 2005 10:31 AM
Subject: Re: HOT STUFF
To: Frank Shaw
Being a Chief of Staff, I have been busy hiring and firing, and enjoying an occasional 3-martini lunch. But now that I have sobered up one of my staff members has told me about the police commission appointments that are being made today.
There are 4 names being announced today:
John Mack: Recently retired President of the Urban League and member of MAV’s transition team.
Shelley Freeman: Regional president for Wells Fargo's Los Angeles Metro
Community Bank
Anthony Pacheco: A distinguished attorney with a long, long resume.
Andrea Ordin??: We hear that’s her name, but it could be spelled wrong, or maybe this Chief needs to fire my research team.
Alan Skobin: Currently serves on the police commission as vice president. Skobin is a well known FOZ (friend of Zine) and it’s been rumored that Zine fought hard to keep his Galpin Ford buddy on the commission.
Posted by Anonymous @ 7/14/2005 10:59:00 AM
12 Comments:
Wasn't Andrea Ordin a member of the Christopher Commission?
July 14, 2005
The following is the complete text of the op-ed by Bob Baker that ran in an abridged version in today's Los Angeles Times.
Placing Blame Where it Belongs - on the Perpetrator
By Bob Baker
Some lawyers will say or do anything to make money. Some self-designated “community leaders” will say or do anything to get their faces on TV.
The tragic death of 19-month-old Suzie Marie Peña as her father used her as a shield while indiscriminately spraying bullets in an urban neighborhood, has provided a forum for these lawyers and “leaders" and their vile and ill-informed accusations against the police, including their allegations that these tragic deaths were the fault of the police.
Sorry, but that just isn’t going to be accepted anymore. It is high time that the blame for these situations, and their deadly outcomes, be placed squarely on those responsible for them.
Jose Raul Peña is responsible for this tragedy. It was Jose Peña who family members said was abusing alcohol and cocaine, making him irrational. It was Jose Peña who began waving a handgun and firing at passersby, prompting calls to the police by the public for protection. It was Jose Peña who fired without warning, indiscriminately, at arriving police officers. It was Jose Peña who shot and wounded an LAPD Officer.
Police officers did not threaten to kill Peña’s wife, 17-year-old step-daughter, and his infant daughter - Jose Peña did. Police officers did not fire first in this confrontation - Jose Peña did.
If someone begins shooting up a neighborhood, the police will respond. If they put others in danger, the police are not going to walk away. When someone shoots 40 rounds indiscriminately out of a building, it is the job of the Los Angeles Police Department to disarm the shooter quickly and at the least risk to all of those who are in harm's way—including passersby, neighbors and police officers themselves.
The citizens of Los Angeles are extremely fortunate in that the LAPD has one of the best and most lauded SWAT teams in the nation to respond to hostage situations. Our SWAT team is so effective that it has been 25 years since a hostage has been lost.
Today, our officers are devastated. They did everything by the book, everything according to their training, and made their best efforts. Many of our SWAT officers are parents themselves, and they can tell you that there is nothing more devastating than the futile loss of a child. Was this death their fault? No. When a father puts his child in the line of fire and continues to shoot at police officers, the blame for the tragedy is his alone.
And it is a tragedy for everyone involved—little Susie Marie, the Peña families, and the police officers who did their best in a terrible situation, but were unable to save the child.
It is sad that before the ink is even dry on the newspaper stories, the family has hired a lawyer and hidden behind “community leaders” in an attempt to rewrite the events which played out in front of the media. But all the blabbering by these front men can’t change the facts, the reality and the tragedy.
Bob Baker is President of the Los Angeles Police Protective League, which represents more than 9,000 LAPD officers
Amen to that!
I have a good person for the taxicab position
and his name is
MEAT
Antonio has just proven what a complete idiot he is!!! John Mack, the racist bastard that critizes LAPD relentlessly. Just goes to show how much Antonio owed the blacks for those endorsements. People are pissed all over town about this. Then Antonio comes out and states that LAPD has always had a problem with training on this little girl shooting. LAPD SWAT ARE THE BEST TRAINED IN THE WORLD ASSHOLE!!! THEY GO ALL OVER THE COUNTRY TO TRAIN OTHER DEPTS. WHY DIDN'T YOU SAY IT WAS THE LOSER FATHER'S FAULT AND IDIOT MOTHER WHO HAD A DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROBLEM AND STILL GAVE THE BABY TO HIM????
2:19 -
"The blacks", or "ni##ers" as you might prefer to call them in private, (we all can tell you're doin' your damnedest to be civil), are not a monolithic group - where John Mack represents all blacks.
Your repeated idiotic characterization concerning "the blacks" should be a reminder to readers that racial stupidity is still very real.
Please, what now we can't use the word "blacks". What about Latinos? Its amazing how sensitive blacks get when we use the very words they want us to call them. Calling Mack a racist bastard is not racism. Its stating facts. Having been born and raised in LA my experience has been the most racist people I encounter are blacks. This is not being racist but factual for me.
Why are the whites here so racist? Having been born and raised in LA County, I find the whites to be the most prejudiced, stereotyping, racist group of them all. That is a fact. Everyday we see how irrational the whites are - just watch the enws. And to top it off, they're always whining and complaining about how racist blacks are towards them and how hard it is being white. Give me a break. And AV will find out that the whites think he owes them. Watch.
7:47
It's not the use of the word "blacks". This blogger, if not you, refer to "THE blacks," as if the ENTIRE ethinic population. Remember, you have folks like Clarence Thomas on your side.
"The blacks" is equivalent to saying "all black people" - like "the whites" would be to "all white people."
It's simply stupid to generalize and demonstrates an oversimplification of divergent views among different ethnic groups. This kind of thinking is most often found among racist idiots.
the late great LAPD deserves a clown like Mack!!!! may be Mack will run shorty Bratten back to the rotten apple!!!
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