Comments on: Choosing the Chief: Tuesday is the New Monday

By: RobThomas

RobThomas — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 23:20:29 +0000

“Mike Moore is part Basque.”

LOL. I think John Wayne was, too.

By: SNS of L.A. Eastside

SNS of L.A. Eastside — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 04:21:34 +0000

An idea for the new LAPD police chief, the LAPD cops are more corrupt than any of mexico’s humble hard working cops.

Disban the LAPD now !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2009/oct/30/lt-mexico-police-overhaul-103009/

MEXICO CITY — Mexico’s top security official on Friday proposed disbanding Mexico’s 2,022 municipal police forces and combining them with state law enforcement agencies to better combat corruption and crime.

Local police have fewer resources to fight crime, and their lower salaries make them more susceptible to corruption, Mexican Public Safety Secretary Genaro Garcia Luna said.

“Public safety should be a state policy,” he added.

Consolidating police forces would improve communication among officials, he said, and bring greater security to areas where local police have traditionally lacked the means to fight crime. Nearly 90 percent of the country’s municipal police forces have staffs of less than 100 people, he said.

Garcia Luna spoke to reporters at the end of a meeting of public safety chiefs from Mexico’s 31 states and the capital, where officials presented a report titled “A New Police Model.”

The report describes local police as “an easy target for corruption,” with more than 60 percent of them receiving monthly salaries of only 4,000 pesos (about $300). Most of them have completed less than 10 years of schooling and are either at basic education levels or illiterate, according to the report.

By: Gava Joe

Gava Joe — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 00:56:17 +0000

Woody to Brittanicus, “too many words”.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:06:25 +0000

Not so fast, George. There are burkas and there are haute burkas. http://www.burkameetshautecouture.com/hm_englisch.htm

By: George Bush

George Bush — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:58:24 +0000

‘Brittanicus ass’
Mission accomplished !!! … He came on this blog like a vulger pig, Celeste.
America is proud of you, and all other freedom loving women who will not wear the burka nor cower to the types of Brittanicus as they raise the back of their hands to bully.

George

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:54:56 +0000

Thanks, SMS. I thought I did delete it. Ghosts in the machine. It’s gone now.

By: Santa Monica Sally

Santa Monica Sally — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:50:22 +0000

Stop playing around and delete Brittanicus ass, Celeste. He is still up there^^^. Show that you have what it takes, and that you just don’t talk big!!!!!!!

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:33:02 +0000

P. Both Charlie Beck and Jim McDonnell are extremely qualified, are very well-respected by those who have worked with or under them, and would be excellent chiefs. They each have different strengths. Mike Moore is also very, very qualified but is not, as you say, a front runner.

There will assuredly be politics in the choice, but that in no way diminishes the qualifications of the men. I know all three, but particularly McDonnell and Beck. And they each have lots to offer.

I’ll do a last rundown on all three for tomorrow morning.

By: poplockerone

poplockerone — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:22:54 +0000

Michael Moore was thrown in as a side-kick hand shake-thank you.

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 19:20:22 +0000

Janet, Mike Moore is part Basque. (He has a Spanish-born Basque father.) It’s not what we generally think of as Hispanic in Los Angeles. But he’s listed on the LAPD rosters as Hispanic and is a member of the Latin American Law Enforcement Association, and active in that org.

It’s a bit of a stretch but…you know…whatever.

Evidently he claims that heritage and is proud of it. This isn’t a new opportunistic thing. I’ve heard it for years.