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L.A.’s New Top Cop: ‘Conservative’ on Crime, ‘Progressive’ in His Policing?

LAPD's new chief, Charlie Beck, was installed with a heavy dose of revisionist history, that may not bode well for the future. Last Tuesday, Charlie Beck was sworn in as the 55th chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. As I wrote two weeks ago, ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Pajamas Media,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Police Department,  Antonio Villaraigosa,  Los Angeles Times,  American Civil Liberties Union,  Jack Dunphy

Identity Politics Brushed Aside in LAPD Chief Selection

Deputy Chief Charlie Beck was one of the most qualified people vying for the position. The waiting and speculation are over: Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has selected Deputy Chief Charlie Beck to succeed William Bratton as chief of the LAPD. ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Pajamas Media,  5 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Police Department,  Antonio Villaraigosa,  Jack Dunphy

LAPD Turns North Hollywood Upside Down After Synagogue Shooting

If only every shooting in Los Angeles got this kind of response. On Thursday morning, at just after six o’clock, a lone gunman shot and wounded two men in the underground parking area of the Adat Yeshurun Valley Sephardic synagogue, in the North ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Pajamas Media,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Los Angeles Times,  Los Angeles Police Department,  Michael Moore,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Jack Dunphy

LAPD on Edge: Who Will Be the Next Police Chief?

The city of Los Angeles is in the final process of selecting a new police chief to succeed William Bratton, who steps down on October 31. Many of us who serve at the lower ranks of the LAPD are understandably a bit on edge as we await the announcement, ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Pajamas Media,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Antonio Villaraigosa,  Jack Dunphy

When Disrupting Terrorists, LAPD Prefers Inoffensive to Effective

The LAPD's new terrorism tipline, iWATCH, is hopelessy hamstrung by political correctness. Are you “iWATCHing” yet? No, it’s not some new product from Apple, but rather an innovation from the Los Angeles Police Department that, like a local ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Pajamas Media,  10 Oct 2009

Related Topics: American Civil Liberties Union,  Najibullah Zazi,  Al-Qaeda,  Jack Dunphy

Hollywood Burning -- By: Jack Dunphy

So it has come to this: Drugging and raping a 13-year-old is now a “so-called crime,” for which artistic talent, the approbation of peers, and the passage of time can coalesce to earn the rapist immunity from official sanction, if indeed any was called ...

From JACK DUNPHY, National Review Online,  30 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Harvey Weinstein,  Jack Dunphy,  Martin Scorsese,  Woody Allen

Rural Mayor to Cops: Do Not Chase Criminals

Mayor Sallie Peake of Wellford, South Carolina, is no fan of police officers’ obligation to uphold the law. Far be it from me, who has spent the better part of three decades working as a police officer, to encourage anyone to take up a life of crime. ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Pajamas Media,  27 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Jack Dunphy

“Moral Clarity” My Foot

The Latin admonishment regarding speaking of the dead (nil nisi bonum de mortuis dicere) is one best followed in most circumstances, but some of the paeans being lavished on the late Sen. Kennedy are such appalling whitewashes of history that a bit of ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Patterico's Pontifications Comments,  29 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Mary Jo Kopechne,  Mark Steyn,  Eugene Robinson,  U.S. Democratic Party,  National Rifle Association

A Conversation with a Well-Educated Fool

Writer David Horowitz has done the country a service by illuminating the extent to which American universities have veered to the political left, but for people whose college days are but distant memories these revelations remain, if you’ll forgive the ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Patterico's Pontifications Comments,  26 Aug 2009

Related Topics: David Horowitz,  George W. Bush,  George Orwell,  John McCain,  Barack Obama

Choosing the Next LAPD Chief: What You Didn’t Read in the L.A. Times

I’ve known nearly all of the people named as potential candidates to replace Chief Bratton for more than twenty years. In that time I’ve seen how they’ve changed – or haven’t – as they’ve risen through the ranks. I’m wary of offering an endorsement for ...

From JACK DUNPHY, Patterico's Pontifications Comments,  18 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Richard Riordan

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