Madeleine Brand guest hosted for Patt Morrison on Friday afternoon and during the Talk to the Chief section of the program that features LAPD Chief Charlie Beck, Brand brought up gangs and the findings in Part 1 of WLA’s first LA Justice Report: Follow the Gang Money, by Matt Fleischer.
The Chief cheerily misinterpreted what we said, and Brand nicely but repeatedly brought Beck back to….well, facts. Something of a good tempered argument ensued, during which Chief Beck maintained that the city’s programs were successful, period, full stop. Brand finally ended the squabble by taking a question from a caller (who didn’t care a whit about gang programs and reports, but mostly wanted to know why he got pulled over and searched).
If you want to listen, it’s about half-ish way through the Ask the Chief section (and exactly halfway through the program as a whole). If you do listen, let me know what you think.
This doesn’t surprise me at all, considering police are ALWAYS full of shit.
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I’d submit that it’s not only true, but perhaps helpful to the author of this blog as well, as she endorsed Chief Beck only for him to turn on her in the name of defending the blue line, which every cop does. The blue line is full of shit, Celeste. It’s a system in which cops LIE, hence, are FULL OF SHIT, to defend themselves. And they even go so far as to attack the credibility of bloggers and journalists for merely reporting the facts as they see them, as Beck has done to you.