EDITORIAL AN EMPTY DEBATE.SUPPOSEDLY numbers don't lie. But statistics can, and they're manipulated all the time to make up seem down, black seem white and lies seem like the truth. That's why the persistent questions about the veracity veracity (v  ras´itē),n of 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 . crime stats -- specifically about the
downgrading downgradingA reduction in the quality rating of a security issue, generally a bond. A downgrading may occur for various reasons including a period of losses, or increased debt service required by restructuring a firm's capital to include more debt and less of some domestic-abuse crime reports -- and their role in lowering the city's official crime rate are cause for concern. In this case, the motives of the person kicking up the dust, Councilman Bernard Parks, can easily be called into question, since he was passed over for a second term as LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. chief and William Bratton brought in to replace him. Parks has accused Bratton of cooking the books on crime statistics. Bratton argues that the LAPD had cooked the books under Parks and others for years until he came in and brought the department in line with federal crime statistics standards. This debate has been going on for way too long. Either the numbers are accurate and in line with national criteria, or they're not. It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a to put this issue to rest and get on with the business of making L.A. a safer city. |
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