The little gray man in the red tie came to the LAPD Rampart Station to bury Police Commission President Gerry Chaleff, but he didn’t have the guts to tell us that on Friday. Instead he talked about a new pension plan, a higher LAPD entry salary (already in excess of what LAUSD teachers receive, but then the teachers have college degrees), and how angry he was that arrests in this city are down 19 percent and crime up 12 percent.Oh yes, and that he seems, at last, to have fallen in love with community-based policing, of all things. Listen to Mayor Richard Riordan go on:“I will not rest until the so-called experts stop debating and act on the issue[s] of morale, recruitment and community policing . . . The time for talk is ended; we must improve morale . . . and improve the way we do recruiting, and we must install the best community-based policing system in the country.”
Source: Role Call | L.A. Weekly