PUBLIC FORUM LESS RHETORIC.Chief Bernard C. Parks Bernard Parks (born December 7, 1943 in Beaumont, Texas) is a member of the Los Angeles City Council, representing the 8th District in South Los Angeles and former Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department. Parks attended Los Angeles City College, received his B.S. came into office with the mandate to reform the LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. . Yet the Police Protective League continues to whine that he is too tough of a disciplinarian dis·ci·pli·nar·i·an n. One that enforces or believes in strict discipline. adj. Disciplinary. disciplinarian Noun a person who practises strict discipline Noun 1. . Dealing with the Protective League and its complaints and demands is like coming to work every day and wearing handcuffs hand·cuff n. A restraining device consisting of a pair of strong, connected hoops that can be tightened and locked about the wrists and used on one or both arms of a prisoner in custody; a manacle. Often used in the plural. tr.v. while trying to accomplish something. The chief has a lot of support in the community and might have more within the LAPD if the PPL PPL - Polymorphic Programming Language. An interactive, extensible language, based on APL, from Harvard University. ["Some Features of PPL - A Polymorphic Programming Language", T.A. Standish, SIGPLAN Notices 4(8) (Aug 1969)]. toned down its rhetoric a little. Mitzi Grasso should consider stepping down. She appears to have a personal vendetta vendetta (vĕndĕt`ə) [Ital.,=vengeance], feud between members of two kinship groups to avenge a wrong done to a relative. Although the term originated in Corsica, the custom has also been practiced in other parts of Italy, in other against the chief. Mayor James Hahn brought the two parties together and asked them to try to work together. Her response to the mayor was to come out swinging right away. If she thinks we need a new chief, maybe the league needs a new president. - Lois H. Spencer Oak Park Parks is ineffective Re ``No confidence vote for Parks?'' (Dec. 24): Cheers to Mitzi Grasso for bringing forth what everyone already knows and is afraid to say: the truth. It is difficult to go against Councilman Nate Holden and Mayor James Hahn and anyone else who is promoting the status quo [Latin, The existing state of things at any given date.] Status quo ante bellum means the state of things before the war. The status quo to be preserved by a preliminary injunction is the last actual, peaceable, uncontested status which preceded the pending controversy. , which, in this case, is less than mediocre. The police have been saying it with their attitudes, the public feels it as frustrations build, and the Neighborhood Watch and senior lead officers found out a long time ago that Bernard Parks is ineffective in the position of Los Angeles police chief. This is not about race but about leadership. This is about rising crime, increased roaming homeless and about police divisiveness. Let us back up Grasso and the L.A. Police Protective League and respond to this situation as a business would: replacing it with a new paradigm New Paradigm In the investing world, a totally new way of doing things that has a huge effect on business. Notes: The word "paradigm" is defined as a pattern or model, and it has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework. for change and for moving forward. - Terri Recchia Woodland Hills Beyond absurd Re Thomas Sowell's ``America has new attitude under Bush'' (Viewpoint, Dec. 30): Is he angling to take over as official Bush mouthpiece? Since President George W. Bush took office, our economy has nose-dived and millions of people have been laid off; we've endured the worst terrorist disaster in the history of the U.S.; we've abandoned several important international treaties; our justice system and our civil rights are being dumped wholesale; and our foreign policy is supporting the killing of thousands of poverty-stricken civilians around the world at the cost of millions of dollars a day under the guise of ``getting evildoers.'' For Sowell to suggest that Bush's policies in light of these dire events show ``far more promise than (those of the Clinton administration)'' and that anyone who might disagree is ``undermining and endangering our society'' is not only absurd, it borders on insanity. - Stuart Bechman Simi Valley Often enough I was embarrassed when Stephen Lord (``Old-style liberal,'' Public Forum, Dec. 27) chastised chas·tise tr.v. chas·tised, chas·tis·ing, chas·tis·es 1. To punish, as by beating. See Synonyms at punish. 2. To criticize severely; rebuke. 3. Archaic To purify. me for assuming he was on ``the right.'' But if it walks like a duck, etc., what does he expect? Was he perturbed per·turb tr.v. per·turbed, per·turb·ing, per·turbs 1. To disturb greatly; make uneasy or anxious. 2. To throw into great confusion. 3. because I made an honest mistake or because I called his suggestion that Bill Clinton and Al Gore were responsible for the tragedy of Sept. 11 ridiculous? It's not true that Clinton and Gore did nothing about the three terrorist attacks during their watch. Missiles were launched against terrorist training camps in Afghanistan. Clinton did not have the support of the American people for all out war on terrorism Terrorist acts and the threat of Terrorism have occupied the various law enforcement agencies in the U.S. government for many years. The Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996, as amended by the usa patriot act . The Republican Congress didn't help much either. If the lie that Clinton and Gore did nothing about terrorism is told often enough, some people will believe it. - Tarleton X. Garton Glendale Remember the 1970s Stephen Lord's letter (Public Forum, Dec. 27) regarding Bill Clinton flitting flit intr.v. flit·ted, flit·ting, flits 1. To move about rapidly and nimbly. 2. To move quickly from one condition or location to another. n. 1. A fluttering or darting movement. around England in the 1970s with an Afro and Castro beard was apparently so disturbing he left the Democratic party. He seems to have overlooked a 1970s event called Watergate. Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned as did President Richard Nixon to avoid 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. . Forgetting the biggest scandal in Washington to date is what he and his cohorts do best. A lifetime Democrat I doubt. I hope Steve stays with whatever affiliation that accepts his biased viewpoint. Just don't join the Democratic party. - Susan Metzger Reseda Punished severely John Walker pointed a weapon at our troops in keeping with his status as a member of the Taliban. I have no way of determining how many Americans he may have killed or wounded. He dearly deserves to be punished severely for his traitorous actions. - Raymond Goldstein Chatsworth What evidence? Re: ``Turned On America,'' (Public Forum, Dec. 27): Charles Velasquez says, ``John Walker should be charged with treason, conspiracy and murder.'' Cooler heads feel their is no viable evidence at this time to prove he knew American forces were in Afghanistan. The only information we've been given is that John Walker was trained at an al-Qaida camp and said, when asked, that he wanted to fight against the Northern Alliance. The Constitution states a person is innocent until proven guilty. So far there is no verifiable evidence against him. We all should wait until he comes to trial to see the evidence the prosecution has, if any, before he is convicted. - Elizabeth Schlaechter Palmdale Send him home With regards to Harlan Campbell's Jan. 2 Public Forum letter ``Special order'': The man doesn't know how close he came to reality. There is, in actuality, a law of the land which says that if any American citizen takes up arms for another country - i.e. join a foreign army or any police or para-military force of a foreign country, he can be denied American citizenship. Every naturalized nat·u·ral·ize v. nat·u·ral·ized, nat·u·ral·iz·ing, nat·u·ral·iz·es v.tr. 1. To grant full citizenship to (one of foreign birth). 2. To adopt (something foreign) into general use. American, as I am, knows this, up front, before he takes the oath of allegiance An oath of allegiance is an oath whereby a subject or citizen acknowledges his/her duty of allegiance and swears loyalty to his monarch or country. In many modern oaths of allegiance, allegiance is sworn to the Constitution. , to this country. And I am certain the law applies to everyone equally - except, of course, to this pampered pam·per tr.v. pam·pered, pam·per·ing, pam·pers 1. To treat with excessive indulgence: pampered their child. 2. , misguided, ungrateful wretch. His lawyers and bleeding heart bleeding heart: see fumitory. bleeding heart Any of several species of Dicentra, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the fumitory family (Fumariaceae). The old garden favourite is the Japanese D. defenders ought to agree that he be sent back home - to Afghanistan - where he would be quite at home, rehabilitating I hope. - Albert L. Navarrete Los Angeles Can't stand the truth Re ``Actor Penn pans talk show hosts,'' (News Lite, Jan. 3): Well it's just been proven again that intelligence is not a prerequisite for the job of an actor. In reference to Sean Penn's statement comparing Bill O'Reilly and Howard Stern to the terrorist Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. is absolutely absurd. I have been listening to both Stern and O'Reilly for years. They speak only the truth based on facts. Some people just can't bear to hear the truth because it may make them look bad. If it weren't for Bill O'Reilly, who knows if the families of the victims of Sept. 11 would have ever received the money that was intended for them. O'Reilly did what was morally right by exposing those who were doing what was not right. To associate O'Reilly and Stern to a terrorist is complete ignorance. - Dawn Krall Newbury Park Real food The body is designed to absorb and digest food. Only in this way are lives practically disease free. Very few people realize that about 95 percent of the ``vitamins'' are not vitamins but synthetics, which the body cannot assimilate. The public is urged to buy cheap, high potency vitamins produced chemically by pharmaceutical giants, which transfers billions into the coffers of these companies. Actually the body can cope better on a starvation diet starvation diet Very low calorie diet Nutrition A fad diet that provides 300-700 kcal/day, which must be supplemented with high quality protein; given the risk of death through intractable cardiac arrhythmias Side effects Orthostatic hypotension due to loss of than with chemical toxins. There are a few nutritional dispensing companies, but they are not easy to find. So the bottom line is find natural, organic products or get in line for future ailments, often life-threatening, and for products being made with coal, tar, sludge and sewage. - Paul J. Lohmann Panorama City |
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