Comments on: The LAPD & Racial Profiling

By: Browne

Browne — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 19:11:58 +0000

So it’s the burden of African-Americans and Latinos to prove to society that we are not being harassed for a good reason?

When is white America going to get proactive in dealing with the race problem?

The LAPD tactics historically were based on racism and I’m going to bet if you controlled for age it would be MORE bias of police officers bothering African-American and Latino men for no reason.

My father is Honduran he “looks” black. I know my father has been harassed more than any of his white counterparts.

I would love to see a study on the LAPD that does account for age, if that was let out the LAPD probably would get sued.

Browne

By: WBC

WBC — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 04:06:17 +0000

The ACLU is hardly an objective source when it comes to cops and anything, and the Yale prof is predictably biased to the left. It may well be that young black and Latino males are stopped more often than whites — maybe it has to do with how they’re dressed, the gang clothes, baggy pants and white tanks and tattoos and bald heads and the rest. I’m sure whites who looked like that would be, too.

Here in LA when I see them pulled over on the Strip or Beverly Hills and other tony areas, that’s how they often look and they’re driving either run-down older cars or those on the other extreme, like pimp cars. I’ve seen some pretty aggressive driving from some of them. Gangs have started to congregate at the clubs there and in Hollywood, and the Strip is liberal West Hollywood and the Sheriff’s Dept., not LA and LAPD. You may have read that the House of Blues has had so many fights involving blacks and Latinos whenever there’s a program that attracts them, that the club might lose its license. Someone was killed there recently.

By: "Overheard at Politico"

"Overheard at Politico" — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 01:13:52 +0000

Politico is saying:
Blame game: GOP forms circular firing squad. . .
Coordination between the campaign and RNC is now nearly dysfunctional, with little high-level contact and intelligence-sharing between the two. . .

With despair rising even among many of John McCainâ€™s own advisors, influential Republicans inside and outside his campaign are engaged in an intense round of blame-casting and rear-coveringâ€”-much of it virtually conceding that an Election Day rout is likely.

A McCain interview published Thursday in the Washington Times sparked the latest and most nasty round of Washington finger-pointing, with senior GOP hands close to President Bush and top congressional aides denouncing the candidate for what they said was an unfocused message and poorly executed campaign.

McCain told the Times that the administration â€œlet things get completely out of handâ€ through eight years of bad decisions about Iraq, global warming, and big spending. . .
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14891.html

By: don quixote

don quixote — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:28:43 +0000

“When you have a population of 46% Latino in Los Angeles and LAPD officers are driving on the Eastside they are not going to stop Chinese”

No Janet but why would they stop Latinos either if they are not commiting a crime? Being a Chicano on the Eastside of LA shouldn’t mean that you are subject to get rousted just because you fit a profile.
You don’t think this occurs? Then you either haven’t lived there or you’ve got blinders on.

And as far as the gang injunctions go, they work for a short time true but many of the gang infested areas have had injuctions and mass arrests, and flooding an area with LE for a period of time ect; ect; ect; but those kind of tactics are short term solutions at best and over the long haul is like putting band aids on a hemoragging artery.
Real solutions take real effort and that usually entails money which on the Eastside means rarely.

By: The apple doesn't fall far from the tree

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:16:33 +0000

Joe McCain Calls 911 To Complain About Traffic…
John McCain’s brother (Joe McCain) earlier this week called the police emergency line because he was angry he was stuck in traffic. The 911 call came into the City of Alexandria on Oct. 21st.
Operator: 911 state your emergency

Caller: It’s not an emergency but do you know why on one side at the damn drawbridge of 95traffic is stopped for 15 minutes and yet traffic’s coming the other way?

Operator: Sir, are you calling 911 to complain about traffic? (pause)

Caller: “(Expletive) you.” (caller hangs up)

The complaint call about traffic on the Wilson Bridge, outrageous enough that the 911 operator called back. The voicemail on the other end, appears to belong to Joe McCain, brother of presidential candidate, John McCain.

“Hi this is Joe McCain I can’t take this message now because I’m involved in a very (inaudible) important political project… I hope on Nov. 4th we have elected John.”

But that wasn’t all. McCain apparently called 911 again, to complain about the message the operator just left him, warning him such use of 911 is criminal.

Appears to be Joe McCain: Somebody gave me this riot act about the violation of police.

Operator: Did you just call 911 in reference to this?

Appears to be Joe McCain: Yeah.

Operator: 911 is to be used for emergencies only not just because you’re sitting in traffic.

“I think it’s horrible I can’t believe somebody would tie up valuable resources to complain about traffic,” said District resident Nancy Case. – DUH!

Video:

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1008/563913_video.html?ref=newsstory

By: Janet

Janet — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:29:13 +0000

Can we get back to the subject of LAPD racial profiling?? I was a speaker on a panel pertaining to gang injunctions. From personal experience I know they work and in fact have shut down some of the most violent notorious gangs in LA. Now I’m a Latina however, some people think I’m another race. After I spoke out in support of gang injunctions audience members told me how would I know anything about gang injunctions because I wasn’t Latina. This is the same crap and racial profiling the ACLU is talking about. Its ignorant and lame. When you have a population of 46% Latino in Los Angeles and LAPD officers are driving on the Eastside they are not going to stop Chinese. What’s interesting about this so called study is the timing of its release. This is old data from back in 2003 so why are they just releasing it now???

By: Aunt Bee

Aunt Bee — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:06:30 +0000

Ron Howard is the latest star to voice his support for Obama, and he did it alongside his old costars Andy Griffith and Henry Winkler in a video for Funny or Die. Watch him strip down, trim his nose hair and don an Opie wig for a black and white call to action before fast-forwarding to “Happy Days.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/ron-howards-call-for-obam_n_137214.html

Interesting that none of the cast from “Northern Exposure” are doing promos for Palin…hmmm. I wonder why?

…hey Woody did you do your homework?

By: Woody

Woody — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:57:58 +0000

This topic has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. You gusy need to get over your derangement syndrome.

By: The Fashion Popo

The Fashion Popo — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:50:32 +0000

Yeah, well, what about McCain spending over $5K/month on make-up! They put on the white eye-liner, the tooth paint, the eye drops, do the facial lipo-suction, the face-painting, trowel-on the pancake, and he still looks like a desiccated dwarf. Imagine what he’d look like with a naked face. Jane the Plumber probably canâ€™t afford a $150,000 shopping spree at Neiman Marcus, Saks Fifth Avenue, Barneys and Bloomingdaleâ€™s.

There once was a gal from Wasilla

Who sought to become a Moose killa

But when faced with the task of a national bask

She gave the RNC the billa . . .

Ya’ll is mad stupid.

By: H & R BLOCK

H & R BLOCK — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:32:13 +0000

Woody, $150,000 is a huge number â€” more than Palin’s $108,000 annual salary as Alaska’s governor. It exposes Palin as a fraud, and Republicans are wondering why their campaign contributions went for fashion. Pundits are wringing their hands about Neiman Marcus tastes in a Wal-Mart economy and legal experts are saying the clothes might be treated as taxable income when the Palins file their next 1040.