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Mailbag: Be supportive in troubled times

November 07, 2009
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A police department under investigation for a systemic culture of excessive force and racism with a suicide thrown in for good measure — is this America?

A police officers association that successfully spends thousands and thousands of dollars to help install their anointed candidates into the City Council to do their bidding — is this America?

A City Council than appoints a laughingstock seven-member police commission consisting of five members who have contributed money to the election campaigns of four council members — is this America?

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A city attorney who claims to only fight his cases in court, but shortly thereafter confidential papers are released to the press to sway his arguments in an ongoing case — is this America?

A city manager who asks what difference it makes what Tim [Stehr] did in the back of a police car 20 years ago when questioned about the handling of a sexual misconduct incident involving his police chief — is this America?

Or is it Germany, 1933?

RICHARD J. TAFILAW

Burbank


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