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    rusholmeruffianMonique Judge
    5/12/17 4:49pm

    1. If Baca gets sent to the prison camp in Taft, there’s a very good chance he doesn’t live to the end of his sentence.

    2. I have a friend (not a close one) who’s an LASD deputy. Like pretty much all deputies, he started his career on jail duty. He could not wait to get out and on patrol, and not just because jail duty is both boring and dangerous. The jail deputies really are just another criminal gang. There’s already a federal consent decree in place, but I’m genuinely surprised that the judge didn’t just strip LASD of authority to run the jails and hand them over to the Federal Bureau of Prisons (which runs federal jails as well as prisons).

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      Monique Judgerusholmeruffian
      5/12/17 5:01pm

      I didn’t understand them wanting him to go to Taft either.

      It’s weird how the LASD still has so much power. When the Compton Police Department was revealed to have so much internal corruption, they were disbanded, and LASD took over for them.

      I can’t even say if that was a better decision or not.

      I’ve written before about LASD basically being security on our Metro buses and trains here.

      Something odd is going on with that department. I just can’t put my finger on it.

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      rusholmeruffianMonique Judge
      5/12/17 5:32pm

      LASD didn’t necessarily take over—it’s that the City of Compton decided to dissolve its police department (mostly because its corruption was going to become a massive financial liability on an already strapped city) and contract out law enforcement services to LASD. I’m not sure whether California law would have allowed it to obtain law enforcement services from another city or not. (I know this is the case for water and electric distribution service.) I know that for a while the cities of Maywood and Bell shared a police department, although I think both ended up just dissolving them and contracting out to LASD.

      A big reason that cities contract out law enforcement and fire protection services is so they don’t have to deal with pensions, which bankrupted Stockton and San Bernardino and IIRC Vallejo as well. Counties historically have been a lot less vulnerable to police and fire unions extorting retirement plans from them than have cities.

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    GirlwithNoName64Monique Judge
    5/12/17 3:39pm

    This is a small victory for police accountability, but the LAPD officer’s union is about to score a huge victory AGAINST accountability on the May 16th election—so please get out and VOTE NO on Charter Amendment C!!

    Another editorial by the LA Times just called it “a union ploy to go soft on police misconduct”—which is exactly what it is. https://www.google.com/amp/www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-no-on-c-20170510-story,amp.html

    The police union is trying to get this to masquerade as civilian oversight, but it is NOT THAT. See http://www.nooncharterc.org for the facts on this deceptive measure.

    Everyone in the progressive community in LA is against it from ACLU to BLM to labor groups like UTLA and National Day Laborers Organizing Network to religious organizations like SCLC and the Black-Jewish Justice Alliance and Bend the Arc to democratic clubs like the East Area Progressive Democrats and Miracle Mike Democrats and the League of Women Voters. Over 70 groups and local leaders have come out in opposition. Literally the only folks in support are the police union and politicians and they are just relying that their deceptive campaign, spending almost a million dollars, will confuse enough voters to grant them the win.

    Every vote counts!!! Please get out and vote on May 16 NO ON CHARTER AMENDMENT C and spread the word. #NoOnC

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      Monique JudgeGirlwithNoName64
      5/12/17 3:43pm

      Out of curiosity, are you going to spam this comment on every single post I write that has anything to do with law enforcement?

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      Petey Wheatstraw The Devil Son in lawMonique Judge
      5/12/17 3:49pm

      Only cause they love you. Seriously tho seems like a bot

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    BombayPhDMonique Judge
    5/12/17 7:52pm

    Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the next director of the FBI.

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      crouching tigerBombayPhD
      5/12/17 11:23pm

      A criminal with dementia​? I’m thinking 46th president of the US.

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