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Nikki Finke all by her lonesome broke at her site last night that the Writer's Guild has settled independently with Tom Cruise's United Artists. This is just the kind of side deal yours truly said a week ago that the Mayor should be calling for publically. Instead he was adding value to your urban experience by cutting out to Io-wayy and campaigning for the show horse.
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Cops come up for air: narc and gang unit cops have made a big media radio buy, the Daily News says. They'll tell the snooze alarmers that as many as 500 officers would rather leave their beats than disclose financial info, and suggest that this would hurt LA bigtime. Sounds like a threat to public safety; from cops, that's inappropriate, even if their position is the right one. Listen to the spot yourself and decide here.
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80 in '08 is a Downtown News special on who's rockin' downtown. Including blogs, and we're so there. Thank you Anna. Other good lists are five residential projects and five key corridors.
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Hey, there's a novel set in San Pedro and it wasn't written by John Shannon. The Daily Breeze says that readers of Andrew Rafkin's first novel Creating Madness will "see references to Trani's Restaurant, the Port of Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners, "Hurricane Gulch" (the nickname for Cabrillo Beach), Catalina Island, the Vincent Thomas Bridge, the Trump National Golf Club and other familiar local landmarks."
Good for him. Hard to beat Shannon's Terminal Island, though.
Labels: a guy in la, blogs, Hollywood writers, la weekly, los angeles politics, san pedro
Posted by Joseph F. Mailander @ 1/04/2008 11:54:00 PM
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Can I join the Blogging Burros??
I can post links to stories from the "fish wraps" and other blogs, and add nothing of value.
I can also accuse the local politicians of "shadiness" without any proof or doing any real investigating. I can post lots of rumor and innuendo from the comfort of my dining table.
Please, Please let me be part of the Blogging Burros, I can sling mud better than most. And I am too fat and lazy to get out and actually do any real street reporting.
I await for your response.
Dear OFGwLT,
Sure you can join our blog. As soon as you quit your City Hall cubicle, stand up to your wife, and up your testosterone level to a point at which you feel you no longer have to post anonymously. I'll keep a keyboard fired up for you!
Salutations distinguées.
Joseph
What is all the fuss about forcing Veteran Los Angeles Police Officers assigned to Gang and Narcotic Units
to submit to Full Financial Disclosure Investigations?
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, right?
The Consent Decree calls for the following compliance:
"132. The LAPD shall require regular and periodic financial disclosures by all LAPD officers and other LAPD employees who routinely handle valuable contraband or cash. The LAPD shall periodically audit a random sample of such disclosures to ensure their accuracy. When necessary, the LAPD shall require the necessary waivers from such officers."
Here is the Problem with the Order passed by the
Police Commission.
Now, it is true Section #132 calls for financial disclosure of all LAPD officers and employees who routinely handle “valuable contraband and cash” but does it call for the type on intrusive investigation into the Officers assets, debts, business dealings, credit, bankruptcies, side jobs and all of the same with anyone they have any type of business or employment dealings with, no matter how small. It includes but is not limited to family members, friends or anyone else.
All of their finances and debts come under investigation as well. What if they have business dealings or employment with another? Does this call for chain investigations?
Does it call for the investigator to evaluate the Officers spending and debt to income ratio? Does it call for the Investigator to become a debt counselor and report to the Chief any problems with over spending or credit card late payments?
Are Officers assigned to Gang and Narcotics Units the only officers in LAPD to “routinely handle valuable contraband and cash”?
How about Vice? How about Robbery of Banks or Jewelry Stores? How about any other crime where money and valuables are involved?
Why is the order passed by the police commission being forced on the rank of Lieutenant and below?
Why is this only being applied to Officers and not to non sworn employees?
Please join with other community leaders and join the Los Angeles Police Protective League and urge the Los Angeles City Council to set aside the vote of the Police Commission.
Together we can meet the requirements of Consent Decree without violating the rights of our Officers or placing the Community in jeopardy.
If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear, right?
Are you willing to give up your rights of protection against unwarranted search, wire tapping or being stopped without probable cause? I did not think so...
David Hernandez
http://backthebadge.wordpress.com/
"Here comes da' judge!"
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
Plaintiff,
v.
CITY OF LOS ANGELES,
CALIFORNIA, BOARD OF
POLICE COMMISSIONERS OF
THE CITY OF LOS ANGELES,
AND THE LOS ANGELES POLICE
DEPARTMENT,
Defendants.
1. The United States and the City of Los Angeles, a chartered municipal corporation in
the State of California, share a mutual interest in promoting effective and respectful policing. They join
together in entering this settlement in order to promote police integrity and prevent conduct that
deprives persons of rights, privileges, or immunities secured or protected by the Constitution or laws of
the United States.
So having the mayor up on a soapbox publicly jabbering about the issues you think he should be jabbering about whether it accomplishes anything or not will suddenly make him a good mayor in your eyes?
Either you're BS'ing us or your standards are way too low.
And maybe a strike is not the right topic for repeated visits to the bully pulpit. Have you ever thought that doing that might do as much harm as good? This isn't a situation where public opinion is likely to be the determining factor and, speaking as one of them, the egomaniacs on both sides of the dispute don't take kindly to being lectured in public.
Me thinks the LAPD doth protest too much. They think that they should not be accountable to anyone, yet they overlook that it was a lack of accountability that caused to the Ramparts scandal which led to the consent decree in the first place.
The disclosure requirements placed on the narcotics officers (5.3 percent of the police force) are not out of keeping with what is required of anyone who has any degree of responsibility in public service.
For example, if I was a middle-level manager in a California state financial regulatory agency, I would be required to submit an annual financial disclosure statement to the Fair Political Practices Commission, and I would be forbidden to engage in financial transactions with the entities that my agency would regulate.
Certainly, the LAPD's alleged mishandling of officers' personal financial records does not eliminate the need to gather the information. The obvious solution is to improve record keeping procedures, not to stop gathering the data. It is egregious in the extreme to suggest such a thing.
The Ramparts scandal that led to the consent decree proved that there is a need for society to be protected from its protectors. As the Roman poet Juvenal who asked: Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? or Who will watch the watchers?
(-: Pass the escargot, please.
It's Saturday and Villaraigosa still blows as a Mayor.
So having the mayor up on a soapbox publicly jabbering about the issues you think he should be jabbering about whether it accomplishes anything or not will suddenly make him a good mayor in your eyes?
Either you're BS'ing us or your standards are way too low.
And maybe a strike is not the right topic for repeated visits to the bully pulpit. Have you ever thought that doing that might do as much harm as good? This isn't a situation where public opinion is likely to be the determining factor and, speaking as one of them, the egomaniacs on both sides of the dispute don't take kindly to being lectured in public.
Dear Robin,
I think you are wrong. The time to talk privately was before the strike. Private talks now are not effective, now that the battle's been joined. The FACT OF THE STRIKE indicates how ineffective they've been, in fact.
Could the Mayor do damage? Every day the strike isn't settled, damage is done. And yes, the public supports the strike, especially in Hollywood---you see signs all over.
Finally, as a Supreme Court judge said in the Pentagon Papers case, secrets withheld from the public are fundamentally anti-Democratic in nature. If the Mayor has feelings at all about the strike, the public deserves to know them. Until he discloses them, we'll just presume he's having another affair with one of the negotiators. Why wouldn't we?
Salutations distinguées.
Joseph
I see mexican gangs are now trying to kill blacks in Monrovia. Is this a case of more low life Mexicans who just want to be in gangs and be involved in criminal behavior. Boy how quickly a group of low life mexican gang members can ruin an otherwise nice quite town like Monrovia.
It's seems to me that the issue of disclosing financial records of police officers assigned to gang units is a sequential derivation. If we account for previous indiscretions of police offices and apply analytical methods to subjugate the question, what will we discover? The results will be demorphing the true issue at hand, which is accountability for police officers indiscretions.
I would like to see true accountability for asset seizures of criminal enterprises using transparent methods which will provide true accountability. Then we will all find a harmonious solution, which is amiable to all parties.
I'm sure that LAPD has it's share of corruption; HOWEVER, so does every other single entity from Spring St. to Sacramento!
The Mexican mafia is all over CA and spreading. Corruption follows Mexico everywhere in the US. We have absolutely no oversight on the thievery and corruption from credit card thefts by teachers and staff at LAUSD to thievery in Sacramento by persons from Nunez et al.
Let's subject ALL personnel in the entire state to these same financial checks!!!! Don't limit it to gang and drug enforcement cops!!!!
If any cops were truly corrupt, they would't put their assets into
bank accounts reportable to the IRS in the first place. Estupidos.
This will only hurt and embarrass the honest cops and their families. Some wives and parents have said they won't give the info, they'd rather have the cops ask for reassignment. Some have already asked to do so or retire early.
know how much it costs to hire and train a good beat cop over years/ at a time we can't recruit enough?
Gee, did the San Pedro novel say anything about the Diesel Death Zone?
Did anyone see the the articles in the Times, Breeze, and Press-Telegram this morning about the MATES III study, released yesterday by the AQMD?
Some areas of San Pedro and Wilmington have a toxic air cancer risk of 2900 per million of population. Executive Director Barry Wallerstein is quoted as saying that an acceptable level is 10.
As one of our good friends in San Pedro pointed out, this means that the cancer risk is 2900% above a safe level!
There was a compromise agreement the gang and narco guys wanted yet the police commission with John Mack said that's not good enough. WE can thank Bitter Bernie for the millions of dollars already paid out for Rampart. Mack had the nerve to say to the media, "even if they ask for transfers that doesn't mean they will get them.": GREAT make them stay and demand they sign something they don't agree with. Isn't that against their civil rights? The cops relatives didn't sign up they did. The decision police commission passed says the financial discloure will go after all their relatives. Total BS. Its like saying we think you're going to be corrupt but we're not sure, but just in case you are we want all your assets upfront showing. There's a lot of people siding with the gang and narco guys. No other police agency has their cops doing this. The solution is go with the compromise that was agreed upon last year.
"The Mexican mafia is all over CA and spreading. Corruption follows Mexico everywhere in the US."
OMG! Now I'm even afraid to go to Home Depot and I fired my gardner Juan,
Mexicans are scary!
The USA was as white and pure as new fallen snow until the Mexicans came here and corrupted it.
It's pretty pathetic that the blogging regulars (burros?) can't seem to understand that people don't have to work for the mayor or anyone else in City Hall to disagree with the mayor's critics.
To too many, 2008 will be a triumph of sorts simply because Bush and Cheney will be out of office by its end. "Change" and "Hope" are great vote multipliers, but to imagine that merely outlasting a term limit could be something like a victory is to misunderstand the meaning of public office in a deep criminal state, and to misapprehend our intractable circumstance whose closest analogy may be damnation.
Diesel death zone refugee,
Has the risk spread (or how soon till it does) to Palos Verdes, Torrance etc. to any significant degree?? Seems to me the risk extends to far beyond Pedro.
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Anonymous, 1/5, 4:58 PM:
Waaaay beyond San Pedro and Wilmington. They are just ground zero.
You can see the map at the Long Beach Report website, or aqmd.gov, MATES III study. There was also a smaller black and white map in the LA Times on Saturday, I believe, as part of their front page story.
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