EDITORIAL WEEK IN REVIEW.A roundup of some of our more important editorials this past weekConsent decree exposed It took the strange coupling of the Police Protective League and some civil-rights lawyers to expose the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. 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. for what it really is: a sham. Cowardly city leaders signed up for it without ever knowing what they were ``consenting'' to. Coddling In cooking, to coddle food is to heat it in water kept just below the boiling point. The eggs added to a Caesar salad should ideally be coddled. However, coddled eggs are not fully cooked and still present a salmonella risk. gangsters Local leaders are unwilling to confront the problem of gang warfare gang warfare n → guerra entre bandas that terrorizes L.A. neighborhoods. They seem to think that playing nice with gangsters can substitute for real law-enforcement. Show us the money Mayor James Hahn For the Iowa politician, see . James Kenneth "Jim" Hahn (born July 3, 1950) is an American politician from the Democratic Party. He was the Deputy City Attorney (1975-1979), City Controller (1981-1985), City Attorney (1985-2001) and Mayor of Los Angeles, California has long argued that a shortened workweek will turn around the LAPD. Now that he's got his way, let's see the results. Crunch time City Hall risks major deficits if it doesn't get serious - and soon - about cutting waste, trimming the bureaucracy and demanding more efficiency from L.A. government. |
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