CHICK SUPPORTS ARMED PATROLS FOR CITY PARKS.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer City Councilwoman Laura Chick chick abbreviation for chicken (1). called Wednesday for an armed law enforcement presence to be assigned to 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. parks, voicing frustration that unarmed park rangers A park ranger is a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands, forests (then called a forest ranger), wilderness areas, as well as other natural resources and protected cultural resources. and the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. have not worked sufficiently together to rid the parks of gang violence and drug dealing. Chick, who is chairwoman of the council's Public Safety Committee, wrote to Police Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. that she wants him to submit a written plan to the panel by Oct. 27 ``to create an armed presence in parks with crime problems.'' Chick said options that might be proposed include arming park rangers, merging the rangers Rapidly deployable airborne light infantry organized and trained to conduct highly complex joint direct action operations in coordination with or in support of other special operations units of all Services. into the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . or
creating a dedicated unit of police officers in the LAPD to patrol
crime-ridden parks.
``It has become abundantly clear that it is still entirely unacceptable to think that we have safe neighborhoods when many of our parks continue to be plagued by regular and onerous on·er·ous adj. 1. Troublesome or oppressive; burdensome. See Synonyms at burdensome. 2. Law Entailing obligations that exceed advantages. gang presence and drug sales,'' Chick wrote. The council panel has for months deferred to the LAPD, which has opposed arming park rangers and has promised to develop a better plan for providing backup unarmed rangers. Chick said only ``limited progress'' has been made in coordination between the park rangers and police, charging the result is that ``children, families and law-abiding citizens have, in many cases, simply given up trying to use these parks.'' ``In effect, those parks have been turned over to local gangs,'' Chick added. She was especially challenging to Chief Parks, who took over the LAPD on Aug. 12. ``Even after this matter went before the City Council where a number of my colleagues voiced outrage regarding the ongoing lack of police presence in crime ridden parks, the department has not responded in a way that communicates to the Public Safety Committee a sense of priority or commitment to achieving greater park ranger and park user safety,'' Chick wrote. LAPD officials told the council panel two weeks ago that they have stepped up efforts to back up rangers targeting crime-plagued parks as part of the ``Safe Parks'' program. An LAPD spokesman did not return calls for comment on Chick's letter. But council members noted that there have been two shooting deaths at Pacoima parks in the last two months and park rangers told of being shot at recently. |
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