Comments on: Someone at the L.A. Times Who Gets It

By: Independent Sources » Blog Archive » Where was the public review and debate over the decision to circumvent judges, juries and prosecutors and return criminals to the streets? Why didn’t someone ask Philadelphia?

Thu, 25 May 2006 05:12:37 +0000

[...] Note: if one wonders what these fine representatives do, read this about Steve Lopez’s excellent column on the subject. [...]

By: Frank Drebbin

Frank Drebbin — Fri, 19 May 2006 21:27:02 +0000

Can’t have “accountability” when the city’s designated enforcers don’t care. Like some southern backwater, it took the feds–the feds!–to chase down Doug Dowie’s padded bills to the city–the feds! That our City attorney and DA were oblivious while the LA Times was revamping its typeface again tells you what kind of “accountability” you can expect here.

By: JVW

JVW — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:41:20 +0000

I always sort of thought that a smaller legislative body would be best, because it would mean the legislators would have to appeal to a greater swath of the potential constituency and would therefore be less beholden to particular interest groups. The LA County Board of Supervisors seems to prove me wrong. Having five people represent the 10 million plus citizens may not be such a great idea after all. I’m hardly surprised that a large portion of their meeting time is devoted to empty feel-good gestures while the larger problems are set aside. I don’t even want to ask what kind of salaries we pay the Board, and how large their staffs and budgets are. Do you want to bet that we could find a lot of waste and inefficiency in that organization?

By: Patterico

Patterico — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:20:50 +0000

Look on any street corner. pick out 25 mexicans, 20+ of them are wanted criminals somewhere.

That strikes me as ludicrously unlikely.

By: Sean P

Sean P — Thu, 18 May 2006 00:05:37 +0000

Keep in mind, that if a candidate for County Supervisor ever came along who actually challenged the status quo in Los Angeles, Lopez would likely be one of the first columnists to flame him or her with crude insults (a la ‘Der Groppenfeuher’) rather than address the critiques on the merits.

By: scrapiron

scrapiron — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:22:16 +0000

While shopping, pick it up. look at it, if it says made in Mexico, put if back. Let it rust on the shelf until the criminals are sent back to a prison of their choice in their home country, most won’t chose the one they excaped from to cross the border. Look on any street corner. pick out 25 mexicans, 20+ of them are wanted criminals somewhere.