https://archive.is/2023.04.17-155007/https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-17/mayor-karen-bass-calls-for-9500-lapd-officers
In an interview, Bass said she fears the accidental release of photographs of LAPD officers, recently provided by the department in response to a public records request, could accelerate the outflow. If the city fails to fix its recruitment and retention problems, the LAPD could easily fall below 9,000 officers in the coming months, Bass said.
Lol.
Wears t-shirt that says "I CAN BREATHE"
Dies on a ventilator
Owned
Think of all the minorities that are just walking around, enjoying their day, not being beaten by cops. Still think cops quitting en masse is cool?
just one more reform bro please bro it will totally fix everything bro i know thats what we said about the last 18 reforms but this one will totally work bro
Emphasis mine. I wonder what's on her Wikipedia page.
Criminal justice
Bass believes that the criminal justice system is broken in part due to the disproportionate incarceration rates of poor people of color. Bass has long called for criminal justice reform and to pay special attention to the way women are treated by the criminal justice system: how they originally entered the system, how they are treated in prison, and what happens to them after they are released. Bass previously served as Chair of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
In 2018, she voted in favor of the First Step Act, which focused on rehabilitating people in prison by incentivizing them with the possibility of an earlier release. Her contribution to the bill was a section addressing what she considers the inhumane practice of shackling women during pregnancy, labor and delivery.
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September 2022 burglary
On September 9, 2022, Bass's Los Angeles home was burglarized and two firearms were stolen. In a public statement, Bass called the incident "unnerving" and "something that far too many Angelenos have faced." According to Bass, the firearms had been securely stored, and no other valuables were taken from her home. As of September 14, two suspects in the criminal investigation were detained at the LAPD Valley Jail awaiting trial on residential burglary charges.
In an interview, Bass said the incident "shattered" her sense of safety within Los Angeles.
It can't be my imagination that when it comes to the pages of politicos, judges, etc - Wikipedia has gotten better.
I highly doubt that those guns were "securely stored" if they were taken that easily.
Yeah I could be talking out of my ass here but aren't there alot of set ups where you can easily lock away your guns in for all intents and purposes un-openable cases?
I would bet that if they were 'secured' and stolen, that is the set up. Otherwise, even light gun safes normally need like three or four guys or a dolly to carry. Not exactly inconspicuous.
everything can be opened. Whether you be a Lockpicking Lawyer or a dude with power tools.
That being said, still most likely they weren't secured properly at all to begin with.
I wonder how often the guns were simply unsecured in a drawer or something. She has 5 kids and she's now 69. I wonder how often she had (and has) kids and teenagers at her house. I can't believe how cavalier many people are with their guns.
The largest source of stolen guns is from parked cars. Make gun buyers take responsibility when their weapons are used in violent crime and access to illegal guns would go down significantly.
The largest source of stolen guns is from parked cars.
That would fact would have never occurred to me - even though for me it's sort of obvious in retrospect.
Yeah it's a common argument of "most guns in crimes are obtained illegally!" but people never stop to think how those guns are obtained illegally. Straw purchasing and gun thefts (mostly from unattended plain sight guns in cars) are some of the biggest issues there.
It's part of why gun control policies are so stupid, they address what the legal buyer can get but rarely ever penalize the legal buyer for being irresponsible and allowing it to fall into someone else's hands. Straw purchasing laws at least try to address that, although they're pretty weak. Studies tend to suggest that gun dealers are pretty damn willing to engage in straw purchasing.
Yeah, so that way they'd be incentived to stop leaving it in their cars in plain sight. "Hey Joe, how did that gun hand up in the hands of a convicted abuser who just killed his wife?"
Failure to secure a weapon you chose to own should be criminal negligence and taken seriously.
official rebuild the force bumper stickers
next to "nevertheless, she persisted" in cotton candy-colored bubble font
the logo is a black power fist but it's royal blue and it's on a window cling on the prius in front of you at mcdonalds
📈 emoji but the line has a badge and skinny line shaped uniform and the end of it is a hand holding a gun shooting out diplomas at students
Just like in Chicago with the recent election of a supposed progressive candidate these are real opportunities to put into place a serious, clear-eyed step forward of defunding the police/refunding the public.
The RW is gonna foam at the mouth either way; fuck them. But if one of these mayors can begin to construct another world being possible, with a whole spate of fully funded social programs and infrastructure projects with the money currently being wasted on a bloated budget for a fascist police force there’s no way people are gonna be against it.
Let the thin-skinned, fear-laden babies cry all they want about phantom crime increases, etc. The rest of us want a decent world with less commodification and more public access.
She’s got a great opportunity here to do something good. As does Johnson in Chicago.
