05-29-2020, 11:47 AM
(05-29-2020, 04:19 AM)samhain Wrote: Perhaps. I was in the eighth grade when the officers in the King beating were acquitted, triggering the LA riots. I still remember watching it on TV while eating dinner with my parents at the local chili parlor. It was the biggest display of civil disobedience/disorder I'd ever seen in my life at the time. Still, I'm not sure a ton changed.
Sure, still bad ones in there. But compared to 1992, there has been considerable change--at least according to this article from 2017, which assesses the results of the Consent Degree the DOJ forced on the LAPD/City of Los Angeles back in 2001:
Lessons from the LA riots: How a consent decree helped a troubled police department change
https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/28/us/lapd-change-since-la-riots/index.html
The LAPD was over 60% white in 1992; now it's a bit over 30%. Among other things--
The consent decree finally implemented many of the recommendations that came out of the immediate aftermath of the LA riots: it instituted "discipline reports," created a database of information about officers and supervisors to identify at-risk behavior, revised procedures on search and arrest -- and even created a system to account for instances of police dogs biting members of the public.
Polls showed a lot more community support and trust for the LAPD, at least in 2017.
A number of other cities were forced into these consent degrees because of riots as well, but Jeff Sessions' DOJ put them under review (big government intrusion into local politics--a crtique with echoes of '60s "states rights" defense of segregation).
Anyway, keeping with my point--changes like this don't appear to come from city fathers suddenly "listening" to community complaints and responding to legal or moral arguments, or even from a body count. They come from billions in lost property.
(05-29-2020, 04:19 AM)samhain Wrote: Cops are still using incredibly questionable to downright malicious levels of force, and the outcomes are still lethal, fairly regularly. We've had two big profile incidents in the last few weeks, plus one involving non-LEO citizens, probably more.
Maybe expect more? Disciplinary-wise, not a lot to worry about from this DOJ.
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