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[sisabet]

You know, I believe the New Orleans Police Department when they say that they are really better now than they used to be - much improved, if only because when I lived there the cops were robbing banks and murdering drug dealers for cash. Beating an unarmed sixty-four year old man to a bloody pulp is an improvement, of sorts, if you really want to compare.

The beating, however; has nothing to do with exhaustion or stress or Post-Katrina-shock or any of that. This is exactly how they roll and it was merely business as usual. On the bright side, if they are just now reaching the civil-rights violatin'/corruption level of, say, a late 80's LAPD? They have really improved. Kudos.

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[nestra.livejournal.com]

I was gawking at a Mardi Gras-centered episode of Cops once and saw a high school classmate of mine. As a cop, luckily, not an arrestee, but it was almost as jarring. I've wondered, briefly, how he did during this whole mess.

[kadymae.livejournal.com]

On the bright side, if they are just now reaching the civil-rights violatin'/corruption level of, say, a late 80's LAPD? They have really improved.

Reminds me a bit of what James Ellroy has had to say about the LAPD of days of yore. Basically, if you thought the LAPD of the 1980s/early 1990s was bad, you don't remember the 1950s.

[mlyn.livejournal.com]

Zing! Now that's catty. It would be suitable for dot_cattiness except that it's a little long.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Mrowr!