PUBLIC FORUM A FOND FAREWELL.It is time now for Chief Bernard Parks to do the noble thing and resign as chief of 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 . for the good of the city and all concerned. He served the city honorably and is to be commended for the many good things he implemented within the Police Department. Chief Parks no longer has the support and confidence of the police personnel and if allowed to continue would not be an effective leader. Let's award him the customary dinner and accolades, then bid him farewell. - Ben Delgado LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. detective, retired North Hills Hahn's decision When are the so-called community leaders who are angry at 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 for not re-endorsing Bernard Parks going to realize: Hahn did not make the decision on a black police chief, he made the decision on a bad police chief? - Dennis D. Hawthorne Canyon Country Whose safety counts? I read with horror the number of killings 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. during January and wonder why our governor and our mayor have chosen to not talk about the anti-gang funding that was taken away to be used for more important things. Things like their own safety from terrorists. These deaths during the month of January should be the wake-up call that these two need in order to understand that gang members are indeed terrorists. They will kill innocent people just like the foreign terrorists did on Sept. 11. Just putting an injunction on the Canoga Park Alabama street gang will not do the trick. Bring back the anti-gang unit. The people you guys see from your ivory towers are important also. - Michael C. Hines West Hills As they please Where were the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. representatives in the City Council when the Valley got cut out of its share of the $17 billion grant that L.A got? For all the good they are to us, we can do without them. Is it possible that we can somehow refuse to elect any of them in future elections? All the nonstop criticism the City Council has been getting for years, in editorials from the Daily News, or from contributors like Kimit Muston (Viewpoint, Feb. 3), or complaints from people in letters to the editor, don't seem to generate any reaction from them. Why? I imagine them sitting around the coffee table laughing among themselves and joking about it all. Let those fools write their letters and editorials, and we'll just keep doing as we please. - Sol Swidler West Hills Needs more practice Re ``I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. this tune'' by Patrick O'Connor Patrick J. O'Connor is a long-serving alderman in Chicago's City Council. O'Connor represents the 40th Ward on the North Side. Like the majority of the members of the City Council, he is a member of the Democratic Party. (View From the Valley, Feb. 1) showing Mayor James Hahn as a piano student: Many piano teachers will tell you that ``I don't know this tune'' are the famous last words Famous Last Words may refer to:
Finally, the tune ``$250 million budgeted shortfall'' could just be too difficult for a mayor without the necessary background. - Eleanor Y. Vigil Burbank Fighting gangs It is pleasing to see that local law enforcement officials have begun to take the fight against gangs to a new level. For too long, gangs have been a pestilence pestilence /pes·ti·lence/ (pes´ti-lins) a virulent contagious epidemic or infectious epidemic disease.pestilen´tial pes·ti·lence n. 1. upon society. To those that have been charged with the protection of human life, keep it up and push harder. Fight on and fight hard until every last one of those who seek to torment law-abiding citizens has been thrown into jail. - Robert Hernandez West Hills Power corrupts Nicolo Machiavelli hit the nail on the head over five centuries ago. More now than ever, it is evident that, due to the decay of and cancerous element in the city of Los Angeles
Our police chief, school system and political structure are completely corrupt and self-serving. As we rot day by day, they continue to line their pockets. Lowlife gangs have overtaken and control our communities. Our quality of life is disintegrating. Valley secession appears as the only possible chance of hope for now. Change is necessary now, not later. Los Angeles and its dirty bureaucrats had their chance and failed. We as a people will be judged by history to be guilty of condemning our children today to follow the road map that the Romans, Aztecs and Mayans took yesterday. - Dan L. Huffman Chatsworth We knew that It's amazing that it took an $18 million ``landmark'' study to let us know that (now, brace yourselves) ``smog causes asthma.'' Why is it that we spend millions of dollars assuring ourselves that Los Angeles has an air quality problem when anyone driving over the 405 Freeway into the San Fernando Valley sees that we have a problem? Obviously, if children run around in brown air, it's going to be harmful to them. Even the expert, Dr. Norman Edelman, states, ``Ozone is just bad stuff.'' Let's put that $18 million into figuring out a solution instead of figuring out a problem. - Sarah Daniels Studio City Campaign finance reform Campaign finance reform is the common term for the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns. I wholeheartedly whole·heart·ed adj. Marked by unconditional commitment, unstinting devotion, or unreserved enthusiasm: wholehearted approval. whole agree with a complete overhaul of our political campaign finance rules. But in addition to changing the rules for corporations, I believe our political money mongers must also include unions and special-interest groups. These groups need as much, if not more cleanup, than corporations. Money and politics are degrading our USA. - Charles Dusheck Chatsworth Redistricting redistricting: see legislative apportionment. Re Steven Afriat's letter in the Feb. 5 Public Forum: Afriat states that he is a member of the L.A. City Redistricting Commission and that this commission (only) directed its staff to take into consideration using the undercount un·der·count tr.v. un·der·count·ed, un·der·count·ing, un·der·counts To record fewer than the actual number of (persons in a census, for example). (e.g. ghosts) to create a new Valley district. Tell us what would happen if this option was applied. Let's see, we count invisible humans and then determine what district they live in. Does anybody really think this would pass as legal in a court of law? It doesn't even pass a smell test. What's to stop another district from saying some of those ghosts belong to them? In my humble opinion, nitwit nit·wit n. A stupid or silly person. [Probably obsolete nit, nothing (from German dialectal, from Middle High German niht, nit; see nix2) + wit1. proposals like this are why we want so badly to secede. - George Timko West Hills Not a pejorative pejorative Medtalk Bad…real bad Dennis Nancarrow says Israel should ``return'' the West Bank to the terrorists (Public Forum, Feb. 12). He calls it ``conquered land'' as if that were a pejorative. There being a finite amount of territory on Earth, there are two ways that nations acquire or lose territory: by conquest or purchase. Both are ancient and recognized - at least de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. - in international law. The Arabs lost the land as a result of an unprovoked, mass, surprise attack in 1967. The territories they lost are now part of Israel. They are welcome to reconquer Re`con´quer v. t. 1. To conquer again; to recover by conquest; as, to reconquer a revolted province s>. Verb 1. it at any time, but they have proved to be spectacularly inept at conquering. Perhaps they should try purchase. They sit on trillions in oil money, which languishes in Swiss bank accounts doing nothing. I am not claiming that might makes right. I am saying that might makes winners. There is nothing wrong with conquering land; it has been done throughout history. - James F. Glass Chatsworth Tomfoolery Looks like President Bush and the American people can forget about an economic stimulus package - our hopes have been Daschled. - Alex Landi North Hills |
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