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When you Defund the Police: Traffic Fatalities

 

 

As of the 24th, the city added two more traffic related deaths, breaking previous record of 59 set in 1996. With a month in the year to go, there has been 61 traffic fatalities. 

 

 

 

The Nature of Theft

 

If you put your laundry on the free bench in the apartment complex, you cannot report someone stole it. 

 

 

Red Light

 

 

 

 

Light Series

 

 

 

 

 

Moniker

 

Wight was called a "stupid head" by an Antifa supporter tonight.  He's quite pleased by that Moniker. 

 

 

Beggar's and 18th

 

I'm covering Carroll, on Beggar's and 18th. A drunk goth gal in a corset and safety pinned pants is raging. When I arrive, she's armed with a whiskey bottle, wielding it like a club. Seeing my prowler, she launches forward shrieking in a primal scream, "I hate you!" Her left hand finds the passenger side door and starts to swing the bottle to the window. 

I exit to enrage. The goth circles the front of the Ford to fight.

And then, I grab her. I pin her biceps to her sides and say,

You will not use force or I will force on you.

She's stunned and stands in place. I see the healed cut marks on her wrists.

I cock my head, look around her, and address Carroll,

Wanta grab her?

Carroll had been standing back, mouth open, staring, but she quickly closes. Grabbing the gal, she disarms the drunk, dropping the bottle so it shatters on the street.

As we go to cuff, the gal arches her head back set to head butt Carroll.

I intercede, grabbing the goth's neck and pressing down until she's in a squat and unable to move.

As we lead her, crying, to Carroll's car, a woman screams down from the fourth floor of a walk up, "You stupid bitch! That's what you get for fighting the police!"

 

 

 

Resources: Part II

 

 

Nationally, the officer to citizen ratio declined nationally by 7.5% between 2010 and 2020.

In the pond, the rate dropped by 22.3% in that time and since then the decline has continued has continued.

 

 

Resources.....

 

Per one expert, if the pond wanted a police force with a size appropriate for the average officer-to-citizen rate in the U.S., it would need more than 800 additional sworn positions.

 

 

Black and White Series

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Opening the Can of Worms

 

The district car, one over south was slammed, graced with calls holding from 1300 and more and more more piling on. I took three of his to help the load. The third was a plate of worms. A pup, in early September had taken a stolen vehicle report from a car company. A test drive never returned the car. The pup had not entered the car into LEDS. The report had been sent back from Records for more information and had never been approved. The officer is out with Covid, so I tried make things right. A supervisor's supervisor's supervisor from the car company called from greater LA and waited an hour with dispatch to make a call. I spoke to her eight hours later. I linked the calls, including a spotting of the car in mid-October with plates stolen from a car in a neighboring agency, got an approval from a sergeant, and finally reported the car as stolen.