LAPD Sinking Ship?
Two LAPD officers get in a running gun battle with a murderer. Governor Schwarzenegger gives them medals. LAPD gives them flack. They had Newport Beach badges when they got the medals.Of the 17 current officers getting medals of valor from the LAPD today, three already work for other departments.
The full story, which FIVE LA Times' writers refused to do, is at Patterico.com.
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Posted by Mayor Sam @ 5/11/2007 12:01:00 AM
21 Comments:
Who would ever wanna be a LAPD cop with this mayor in charge. Especially someone with Villaraigosa's sordid background and ACLU gang-coddling roots. As long as he's around, we'll get more 3rd world gangsters and less police.
Everything Jimmy Hahn said about this guy has come true. It wasn't negative campaigning after all - it was a real warning. Zero substance and weak on crime.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_5868266
For all you illegal supporters read how many of the officers who risked their life were Latino. What does it say about our media when these brave and courageous heroes didn't get any media coverage? Unbelievable the gang banger, cholo, low class, man with no balls Antonio had the audacity to show up to the ceremony for his photo op. Mayor Hahn would have never behaved this way. I can't believe how many people are scratching their heads wondering why the hell they voted for Antonio. Oohhh and to all those portraying the illegals as victims and afraid of LAPD have you driven around LA lately? All the illegal vendors are out in force because of Mother's Day selling goods and making hundreds of tax free CASH. They have no permits but are out there breaking the law but we're suppose to believe they're terrified of LAPD. ASSHOLES!!!
I asked an officer yesterday if the negative publicity gets to him and makes him not want to go out there and fight crime when the politicans, media and city leaders have condemned the entire dept. He said "we are use to it." IF we didn't care about the people we serve why be here? These are the type of officers LAPD has out there. Only a few may have done wrong but the good ones get slammed unfairly. Wonder how the politicans would feel if the gang bangers infiltrated their neighborhoods?
Not so fast blaming LA Times. Here's the story they did back in March when announced.
Monday March 12, 2007
Valor awards come a decade late
* Thirteen LAPD officers are being honored for saving 80 from a retirement home fire.
It was an act of bravery on an unusual scale: Thirteen Los Angeles police officers repeatedly entered a fire-engulfed retirement home, kicking down locked doors and navigating smoke-choked hallways to rescue 80 senior citizens.
But somehow, due to a bureaucratic mix-up, the 1996 incident never received official recognition from the LAPD.
Now, more than a decade later, Police Chief William J. Bratton has recommended that the 13 officers receive the Los Angeles Police Department's most prestigious award, the Medal of Valor, which is awarded for acts of "extreme courage while consciously facing imminent peril."
The award, though late, means a lot to the officers who put their lives on the line that day.
"It's really nice to get this," said Sgt. Miguel Lopez, who works at the Southwest Police Station now but in 1996 was assigned to bike patrol in the Wilshire Division neighborhood where the fire occurred.
Saturday, he remembered getting the call on June 21, 1996, at 9 p.m. while riding his bike two blocks away from the retirement home on the corner of Croft Avenue and Beverly Boulevard. He could see smoke billowing from the building.
Officers Jeffrey Wenninger and Jose Castellanos were first to arrive and tried to enter through the front door, but the thick smoke forced them back.
Soon, others arrived: Sgt. Albert Gavin and Officers Sandy Kim, Alberto Junco, Stephan Diaz, Arturo Perez, Mark Pursel, Kenyard Bilal, Gerard Jackson, Guy Dobine and Jude Washington. Together, they devised a rescue plan.
The officers formed human chains, holding hands to avoid getting lost in the smoke. Others crawled on their hands and knees, the chief said.
"Each officer reentered the burning and smoke-filled retirement home between five to 10 times to rescue the elderly residents of the facility," Bratton said in a report to the Police Commission, which is scheduled to vote on the medals Tuesday.
Lopez said he rescued eight people. "I could hear a woman screaming for help on the second floor," he recalled. "I had to carry her down the stairs."
Wenninger, Lopez, Junco and Castellanos suffered smoke inhalation that required hospital attention. Wenninger was admitted to the intensive care unit but released the next day, the chief's report said.
Why has it taken so long for the department to recognize the officers' actions?
"The initial commendation report regarding this incident was misplaced," the chief's report said.
Better late than never, said Lopez.
"It's OK that it's been 10 years," he said.
In the meantime, Kim has moved on to the Santa Ana Police Department, where he is a detective; Perez is an officer with the Burbank Police Department; and Bilal and Jackson left the LAPD in 1998.
Those who left are still being recommended to get the award.
Interestingly, the medal recommendation is not the oldest one made by Bratton this year. The Times reported Thursday that the chief recommended a posthumous Medal of Valor for Officer Walter Kesterson, who was killed in 1946 in an exchange of gunfire with two armed robbery suspects. It is a mystery why Kesterson's valor was not recognized at the time.
The chief is also recommending the Medal of Valor for Officers Rudy Barragan and Marco Briones, who struggled to pull an unconscious motorist from the twisted metal of a wrecked car as fire spread through the vehicle. The two officers had responded to a traffic accident May 1, 2006, in the Newton Division but could not get the unconscious driver, who weighed more than 250 pounds, out a window.
Suddenly the dashboard ignited. As two other officers tried to fight the fire, Briones and Barragan broke out the back window and tried unsuccessfully to pull the driver out that way.
They went back to the front as the fire began to spread.
Using what Bratton described as "tremendous strength," they eventually pulled the driver from the car.
"Just as they cleared the vehicle and were dragging the driver to safety," he wrote, "the vehicle exploded and was completely engulfed in flames."
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People are posting on other blogs why LA residents are not doing anything about the illegal situation or holding the Mayor accountable for the mess in this city. The surveys have strong support for the officers yet nothing from that voice in the media. People in LA are lazy. Wait til the really start moving into their neigborhoods property taxes will start to decline.
illegalshttp://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=250971
Shame on Mayor Villaraigosa and Chief Bratton for giving the benefit of the doubt to the criminals over the police," said Rev. Peterson. "The mayor is absolutely pandering to Hispanics and illegals." He added, "Where's the compassion for the injured officers; where's the outrage over illegal aliens, communists, and anarchist thugs attacking the cops? We don't need the FBI to investigate, we need INS and ICE to detain and send these illegal aliens back to Mexico."
According to reports, some of the agitators provoked the cops, calling them "fascist pigs." They also beat "war drums" while waving Mexican and communist flags and refused police orders to dispurse. Ten officers and more than a dozen protestors and members of the media were injured during the melee. The LAPD and the Police Commission are expected to present a full review of the incident within 30 days.
calling a cop a fascist pig is not a crime.
so forget that angle. its actually what distinguishes the United States from places like communist China.
mere verbal abuse is fully protected under the first amendment.
any, and I repeat, ANY action to deter or punish such speech is categorically prohibited by the Constitution.
nor is it a crime to beat 'war drums' (lol) or wave any kind of flag.
11.26 you need to learn the BASIC RULES of this country before you try to defend it.
what about the confederate flag, you gonna ban that too? I see plenty of citizens flying that one.
those people had a permit to hold that rally. end of story.
the police way over reacted, and the City leaders have acknowledged that. good for them. doesn't take Einstein to see that ur a redneck, and a hypocrite, and unAmerican as well.
you should respect all the american lives lost already fighting for those rights, including the right to burn the American flag, if that's the nature of your protest.
go learn your bill of rights.
or we should start taking citizenships off of you fools, and handing them out to people who don't disrespect that founding document.
its the fabric that holds this country together.
people like you are actually the ones tearing it apart by encouraging and condoning a 'police state'.
the ignorance displayed is quite apalling.
I'm a Johnny-come-lately to this blog....but pray tell...who is this Matt Dowd anyway...an illegal with stolen ID????
Anyway, I just came here to express my outrage and disgust at the little shit who sits in the mayor's office and the double shit who
wears the police chief badge!!!!
Get these commie socialists out of city! Will the real fascist pigs stand up please?
Matt Dowd you small dick idiot, you are in the minority. Read the blogs and polls because people are supporting the officers. Word is our low life Mayor is already feeling the heat from his dumb ass remarks. You're one of those illegal Illiterates who breaks the law. Why aren't you saying anything about the officers assaulted, the criminals at the park,etc. Because you're too stupid to open your eyes and look at ALL THE COVERAGE not just what the media and Spanish stations WANT YOU TO SEE. Maybe a few cops did wrong but you can't blame the entire dept. and overall those officers out there risk their lives. You would never ever be able to get through the 1st week of an LAPD academy. You're a weak, spineless man who embarrasses himself way too many times. Go back to Australia.
google search me.
I'm NOT the one who put George Bush in office...TWICE.
then realized that Bush was an asshole and quit. I'm the blues guitar and incense one.
and for all those people out there bemoaning 'criminals' and "illegals" and enforcing the laws....tell me when was the last time you adhered to any posted speed limit on the roads and freeways in this City?
yeh, I thought so...never.
upholding the law starts the moment you turn the key in your gas guzzling SUV.
but everyone thumbs their nose at the speed limit. why? because everyone else is speeding right?
great example to set for the immigrant community. total disdain for one of the most common laws that exist, and check the stats on speed related deaths on the roads.
far outweighs the deaths from all other unnatural causes.
so when I see people drive correctly, then I'll take notice of their other rantings
incl. 4.25
and 3 factual corrections to your post:
the dick is big
my 'illiteracy' managed to get our boardwalk lawsuit in front of a federal judge (May 24. come watch the show)
its New Zealand not Australia.
so I guess the embarassment is all yours.....
matt, did you go off your prop 215 meds? you seem really angry lately.
Citizens absolutely have the right to protest however if the protest becomes unruly, the police should declare the gathering an illegal assembly. Once this declaration is made and the protester(s) heard the announcement, if they fail to leave, they are in violation of the law and guilty of a misdemeanor.
If participates of the protest begin to throw rocks and bottles at the police that would make the gathering unsafe and should compel the police to take some action.
The typical tactic of Anachists is to provolk a response from the police. They generally hide in the crowd in an effort to force the police to engage the larger crowd.
The Lawyers Guild is well aware of this tactic. Athougth they say they do not believe in these tactics, they will never work with the police to prevent it.
The police were in a tough situation. They did overreact. The police, protesters, Lawyers, City Leadership, no ones hands are clean on this one.
Matt Dowd, what exactly is this relationship between being AGAINST illegal immigration and being FOR speeding? Do the two go hand in hand? Do pro-illegal alien activists drive more slowly?
Maybe you should ask the conspicuously pro-illegal-alien Bill Richardson about that.
The arrogance of marching again after last week. Agree with a poster they should have a couple of ICE buses waiting. Why are the feds so afraid to come to LA?
5/17/2007 Procession For Justice OCB/Rampart
TIME: 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
ASSEMBLY: Wilshire Bl./Berendo (next to Immanuel Presbyterian Church)
ROUTE: Berendo/Wilshire. E on Wilshire to Park View Street. Vigil and ceremony at MacArthur Park between Wilshire and 6th St.
CONTACT: Multi-Ethnic Immigrant Worker Organizing Network
Victor Narro
310-980-8841
Poor Matt Dowd always sound angry. Wouldn't you if you weren't blessed and had a small dick? He has no manhood that why he comes on here and doesn't make sense.
What the media is failing to show.
http://www.mmdnewswire.com/content/view/1606/
How irresponsible for the Mayor of LA to tell people its ok to break the law, I don't care. He just gave voters in California the best reason why if he runs for Gov. they should vote NO.
....Hizzoner took the pulpit himself to make the remarks “It doesn’t matter to me whether you have papers or not. You came to work. We all have the same dreams. We want peace and decent jobs.”
matt dowd, regarding your comment about speed limits and car accident deaths, the repeal of the 55 mph limit in 1995 actually lead to a drop in per capita car accident deaths, injuries and crashes.
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008621
Anachist refer to the police as "Guard Dogs for the Rich". When a group(s) readily and willing dehumanize a group like the police, it become easier to attack them. This is what happened on May 1st.
Where was the Cholo Mayor during the riots?
He was building up his future campaing war chest by meeting new contacts in Latin America.
Look out Angelinos he will be around for a very long time as long as you keep bitching and complaining. Because so far many of you winners do not go out and vote when you are suppose to.
^ No, he actually ran away and hid outside the USA until all the rock- and bottle-throwing stopped (he didn't want his "photogenic" face marred by a thrown object or baton).
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