EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.Highlights from some of our more important editorials this past week. To read the editorials in full, please visit our Web site at www.dailynews.com. Handcuffing cops If there was ever a clear-cut illustration of how the ill-conceived federal consent decree A settlement of a lawsuit or criminal case in which a person or company agrees to take specific actions without admitting fault or guilt for the situation that led to the lawsuit. A consent decree is a settlement that is contained in a court order. is hurting policing in 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. , the LAPD's recent bungled bun·gle v. bun·gled, bun·gling, bun·gles v.intr. To work or act ineptly or inefficiently. v.tr. To handle badly; botch. See Synonyms at botch. n. sweep of parolees was it. Piecemeal piecemeal patchy, e.g. necrosis of the liver in which groups of hepatocytes are separated by small groups of inflammatory cells and fine, fibrous septa following extension of the inflammatory process beyond the limiting plate. reform Given Los Angeles' current business climate, even modest changes would be an improvement. But whatever shape city business-tax reform takes, it must be only the first step in making L.A. business-friendly again. Taxing day Government officials at all levels, it seems, have their hands out to the voters, looking to take a bigger tax bite to cover years of bad public policy while doing nothing to change their ways. Mistaken Miscikowski L.A. City Councilwoman Cindy Miscikowski Cindy Miscikowski represented the 11th District on the Los Angeles City Council for two full terms from 1997 through 2005. Previously, she was an aide to Councilman Marvin Braude and the Executive Director of the Skitball Cultural Center in its beginning stages. - and the people she serves - would be much better off if she would ditch her plans to revive the failed LAX expansion plan, and go back to the drawing board. |
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