I was on Patt Morrison’s show on Monday afternoon along with Deputy Chief Patrick Gannon of the LAPD, a smart guy who is the man who heads up the department’s South Bureau. Also on was my pal, Aquil Basheer, the long time gang and violence intervention specialist who runs an excellent community intervention training program.
The issue was one more look at the fact that around 80 of the LAPD’s gang unit officers have asked to be transferred to other duties because of the requirement for gang and narcotics officers to open their bank accounts and financial lives to the department that will kick in this March.
Some of this stuff is likely nothing you don’t already know since, during the past couple of years of legal battles over the issue, I’ve posted quite a bit about it. Yet, with Patt as the moderator, Monday’s discussion made for a lively half hour of radio, complete with callers tossing in questions of their own. (Some of the callers, I think, decided I was a tool of the police union. Ah, the irony!)
In any case, you can listen to a podcast here. And here you can see what commenters had to say about the show.