PUBLIC FORUM BUNGLING AT THE TOP.I don't understand. The Daily News' Feb. 6 headline says that Mayor Riordan wants the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. fixed now. But he just gave Chief Parks a $30,000 retroactive raise because he had been doing such a good job. Hasn't Chief Parks been implementing the mayor's bold steps to improve officer morale, recruitment and community policing efforts in the face of rising crime and falling arrests? Are we to believe anything else that this mayor says to us? Perhaps Mayor Riordan fired the wrong person. Perhaps he should have fired Chief Parks and then followed this up by resigning for bungling 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. nearly every task he has undertaken. - Max C. Yost Northridge Blame stops here Re ``Mayor: Fix LAPD now'' (Feb. 6): It looks like Police Commission President Gerald Chaleff is Riordan's scapegoat. When Willie Williams This article is about an executed murderer. For other uses, see Willie Williams (disambiguation). William James Williams, Jr. (November 9, 1956 – October 25, 2005) was a murderer executed by lethal injection in the U.S. state of Ohio. was hired as chief of police, the morale of L.A. police officers started downhill. When Williams was not rehired, Riordan made the final decision to promote Bernard Parks to chief of police. Since that decision was made, morale has sunk even lower, crime is up, hiring of police officers is down and more and more officers are leaving the force for one reason or another - and now Parks is getting a big raise in pay. The mayor should get with it. He's as much to blame as anyone else for the shape of the Police Department. - James G. Jones Major General James G. Jones (born 1934) is a retired United States Air Force general and former commander of the Keesler Technical Training Center, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. Canoga Park A big Gray mess There were rumbles of impeachment impeachment, formal accusation issued by a legislature against a public official charged with crime or other serious misconduct. In a looser sense the term is sometimes applied also to the trial by the legislature that may follow. the first year Gov. Gray Davis was in office; what happened to those rumbles? Here it is two years later and now look at the mess we are in. All he does is make speeches about conservation. Everybody has to conserve, but at what price? He expects people to do with less, yet pay more, and if not, he will slap a big fine on them. I'm sure he and his cronies in Sacramento will be more than comfortable. The sad part of all this is that he knew almost a year ago that this was going to happen and couldn't make a decision to do something. Of course he could not hurt his big campaign contributors, the SoCal Edison and PG&E. Now look at the mess he has got us into. - J.A. McMillin West Hills Common sense tells us Fred Coble's Feb. 4 Public Forum letter is a perfect example of an interpretation of history. He states that Reagan's 1981 tax cut gave us the worst depression since 1929. The fact is he was handed the worst recession since 1929 by former President Jimmy Carter. When Reagan cut taxes, America experienced the greatest peacetime economic growth in its history. Common sense tells us that when we are experiencing an economic downturn such as we are now, putting money back in the hands of the consumer will stimulate the economy because they will spend more money and more spending creates jobs. This worked in 1961, 1981 and it will work in the year 2001. - Julian Childers Panorama City Paying for bilingual In the Jan. 24 Daily News lead story ``LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) budget buster,'' Superintendent Roy Romer Roy R. Romer (born October 31, 1928 in Garden City, Kansas, United States) was the 39th governor of Colorado and served as the superintendent of the Los Angeles Unified School District from 2001 to 2006. says the district can afford to give salary increases of 11.5 percent to teachers if $100 million is cut from the budget. LAUSD is aware that after the passage of Proposition 227, certified bilingual education bilingual education, the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native teachers still receive stipends amounting to $33 million a year although certified bilingual education teachers are not required to teach English immersion. LAUSD not only continues to pay undeserved un·de·served adj. Not merited; unjustifiable or unfair. un  de·serv $5,000 annual stipends
to certified bilingual teachers, but continues to hire new ones who also
receive stipends. Romer, after you cut the stipends, I have some other
money-saving ideas I will share with you.
- Hal Netkin Van Nuys Unnatural gas prices I just wondered if the gas company thought we were so preoccupied with electric problems that their outrageous increase would go unnoticed. - Kathleen Blank Palmdale Question of genocide Re ``Policy unpaid in genocide'' (Jan. 30) on Armenians who sued New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Life Insurance Co. over benefits. It is sad and painful indeed that to this day the U.S. accepts the Turkish version of the events of 1915 and persists in calling a ``massacre'' the killing of over one and a half million Armenians. Genocide. ``What's in a name?'' That's the question That's the Question is an American quiz game show on GSN, hosted by game show veteran and former Entertainment Tonight reporter, Bob Goen, which premiered in October 2006. . - Armen Dadour Granada Hills Soboroff announcement I take serious exception to the column ``Riordan's protege is off, running,'' by Kimit Muston, Viewpoint, Feb. 4. Muston is wrong. He writes that there were only ``50 or so supporters.'' In fact there were nearly 300. Muston reported we served ``four kinds of wine.'' If he had taken the time to ask he would have found out that this was sparkling grape juice. Muston's piece is crammed with a sick cynicism which does your newspaper discredit. He takes pains to paint Soboroff as a ``wealthy'' candidate who ``paraded'' children out for his own political gain. If he had wanted to check facts, he could have done so very easily. Steve Soboroff Steve Soboroff (born August 31, 1948) is a real estate developer and president of Playa Vista. Mr. Soboroff is the Chairperson of the Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. has been a volunteer in Big Brothers for nearly 30 years and is proud of the work he has done in this organization. - Ace Smith Campaign manager Steve Soboroff for Mayor As a human being Last week one of your readers stated that men have no right to express an opinion on abortion because they have never been pregnant nor given birth. If a woman truly believes that all decisions involving pregnancy and birth are hers and hers alone, I suggest that she renounce all paternity suits and acceptance of child support. I believe that abortions as simply another form of birth control is wrong. I believe that birth control methods should be available to anyone that needs them and that preventing pregnancy is better than abortion. I believe that abortion should be available in the case of rape, incest and medical necessity (i.e. health of the mother, severe fetal defects, etc.). As a human being, I have a right to these opinions regardless of my sex. Men are entitled to opinions because they are a required part of the process. - Jack Bennett Jack Bennett (born May 30,1980) is a British actor. He trained on scholarship at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, graduating in 2001. He has mainly worked in theatre, including productions for The Royal National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre and the Woodland Hills In harm's way harm's way n. A risky position; danger: a place for the children that is out of harm's way; ships that sail into harm's way. Dennis McCarthy's column about the shameful treatment of some disabled military veterans is shocking (``Paralyzed par·a·lyze tr.v. par·a·lyzed, par·a·lyz·ing, par·a·lyz·es 1. To affect with paralysis; cause to be paralytic. 2. To make unable to move or act: paralyzed by fear. vets face apathy at clinic'' Feb. 6). I was in a bomber in Europe during World War II and was lucky enough to pull through without being wounded, but some of my fellow veterans were not so fortunate. It saddens me to think that they may not be given the best possible medical attention by a government that sent them into harm's way. - John Jarvis John Jarvis is a notable karateka from New Zealand. He is Shihan, 5th Dan. His first instructor was Steve Arneil in 1967. Later, John Jarvis was a personal representative of Masutatsu Oyama and Kyokushinkai chief instructor in New Zealand. Northridge Pierce College coyotes In response to Lira Vickers' statement that the coyote coyote (kī`ōt, kīō`tē) or prairie wolf, small, swift wolf, Canis latrans, native to W North America. It is found in deserts, prairies, open woodlands, and brush country; it is also called brush wolf. is a predator to her horse (``Predators 'landlocked' to on-campus living,'' Feb. 5). Hogwash hog·wash n. 1. Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing; nonsense. 2. Garbage fed to hogs; swill. hogwash Noun Informal nonsense Noun 1. . I've been riding and hiking with coyotes for over 30 years in Griffith Park with my horses and dogs and I've never run into any aggressive coyotes. Your horse probably spooked because it caught something out of the corner of its eye, not because it was a coyote. Sorry about the cats but they are food and they create their own problems. The coyotes may bother the small livestock but you can solve that by getting a sheep dog or livestock dog. - Patty Smith Burbank |
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