BERNSON TARGETS `JOHNS'.Byline: Rick Orlov Daily News Staff Writer Frustrated frus·trate tr.v. frus·trat·ed, frus·trat·ing, frus·trates 1. a. To prevent from accomplishing a purpose or fulfilling a desire; thwart: at the continuing prostitution problem in the city, Councilman Hal Bernson Hal Bernson served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 12th district. He was chair of the Transportation Committee. Prior to being on the City Council, he served in the Navy. Preceded by Robert M. says he will continue to push a proposal to publicize pub·li·cize tr.v. pub·li·cized, pub·li·ciz·ing, pub·li·ciz·es To give publicity to. publicize or -cise Verb [-cizing, -cized] the identity of those arrested for soliciting women. ``What we're doing now is a wink A short control signal in telephony operations. It can be a single pulse, a brief interruption of a continuous tone, a change of bits or a change in polarity of the signal. For example, a momentary interruption (the wink) of a continuous, single-frequency tone is a signal that the and a nod,'' Bernson said. ``I had what I thought was a good idea, when after someone was convicted of soliciting a prostitute, of running their photograph. It has not been the will of the police chief to do that. It has not been the will of the Police Commission or the city attorney.'' The Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Commission, acting on advice from the police chief and city attorney, rejected Bernson's proposal to identify ``Johns'' when the issue came up in November, saying the city could be sued if it misidentified people with common names. However, Bernson said he's not going to let the issue drop. ``Newspapers and TV stations might not run the pictures, but we have our own cable station and we can run them,'' he said. Bernson made the comments during the City Council's Planning and Land Use Management Committee meeting Tuesday. |
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