By winning the face-off with Los Angeles‘ mayor and police chief last week, the Los Angeles City Council finally did something in this millennium to justify its existence. Better still, what it did might, after a generation of failed tries, create an LAPD that reflects the city’s 21st-century needs.Of course, there were short-term reasons for the veto-proof vote to approve a consent-decree format addressing the problems of the city‘s troubled police force. One was the obvious alternative. As City Councilman Mike Feuer put it, ”We’d have had to go into litigation [against the Justice Department], and we‘d have been slaughtered.“
Source: Coming Alive | L.A. Weekly