I’m certain that a publication as important (and as self-important) as the LAT would insist on a similar policy.

Tim Rutten and Bob Sipchen have both met him. I’m not sure who else has.

I have met him on more than one occasion, and spoke to him most recently at Cathy Seipp’s funeral.

To Nosh and the other clueless Lib Ted Monroe, consider the gist of Dunphy’s criticism. That the LAPD responds to political incentives to minimize enforcement to avoid political controversy.

Which has it’s own problems. Right now the Latino Gangs are conducting ethnic cleansing against African Americans. Deliberately targeting the most defenseless and innocent. Young girls. Old women. Just like in Iraq. Ted Monroe and Nosh got their wish, an LAPD made into a “drive and wave” agency rather than confront and inevitably kill minority criminals.

Of course the LAT and Nosh and Ted pay lip service to this issue, but when it comes to actually making choices and doing something about it they recoil like the LA Police Commission, Mayor Tony, Najee Ali, etc.

Food for thought for clueless Westside Liberals. Remember Karen Toshima? What happens when Latino gangs have ethnically cleansed African Americans out of their neighborhoods? Do they magically stay away from the Westside? Emasculating the LAPD inevitably means the whole city ends up like East LA, except for gated communities.

The jaywalking tickets are not motivated one iota to prevent the pedestrian casualties that the police cite in the article — they are merely ruses, upheld by case law and judges, to search people.

So you have ESP, too? Police work is just a thinly veiled attempt to repress minorities…or skid row residents!

My recent ‘crossing too slow’ violation cost me a $109 fine, but I’m a middle class white woman, so I guess that’s okay.

IOW, nosh, life is tough all over. Ease up.

My loyalty, however, does not extend to any individual within the LAPD or the city government. I wrote several columns for NRO advocating the removal of Bernard Parks as chief of police, a position ultimately adopted by the mayor and the police commission. I also advocated the hiring of William Bratton to replace Parks, and while I’ve sometimes been critical of Bratton, I’ve been careful to note that whatever those criticisms may be, the LAPD is in far, far better shape today than would be the case had Parks remained as chief.

I am not, as Monroe seems to suspect, a high-ranking figure in the LAPD, and Monroe’s suggestion that I make my case with the “police board,” my city councilman, or the mayor suggests an almost childlike naivete on his part. Neither the mayor nor my councilman has the slightest interest in the opinions of someone at my level of the LAPD, and the police commission is headed by a man whose hostility to police officers has been well documented. To my knowledge, only one of the five current police commissioners has ever bothered to solicit the opinions of cops working the street. The rest are content to sit in their offices and rely on the information spoon-fed to them through the chain of command.

As for the L.A. Times, it was they who invited me onto their pages, and indeed they were satisfied enough with my writing that they ran eight of my columns over the course of two years, even placing some of them on the front page of the Sunday opinion section. I am well aware of the ethical dilemma faced by the editors in publishing pieces written under a pseudonym, and I can only assume that those issues were discussed at length and resolved prior to their opening the door to me. How they came to have second thoughts on the matter has yet to be satisfactorily explained. Given the many revelations about the Times brought to light by Patterico and others, one might conclude that they observe the standards of journalistic ethics only when it’s convenient for them to do so. But in one conversation I had with a Times editor, he acknowledged that I offer a unique viewpoint into the workings of the LAPD, and that that viewpoint would surely be lost if I were to reveal myself.

Ted Monroe should be assured, as should any others who share his opinions, that I would have no reluctance to stand up publicly against corruption within the LAPD, as indeed I did early in my career. But true corruption is almost nonexistent in the department. Even the Rampart scandal, often described as the biggest scandal in the LAPD’s history, extended to no more than a dozen officers. No, the biggest problem in the department is its bureaucratic inefficiency, on which I will continue to comment from the safety of my pseudonym. I can only continue to deal with the bullets coming at me from the front if I can avoid the knives coming at me from the back.