“We conclude that policemen, like teachers and lawyers, are not relegated to a watered-down version of constitutional rights.”
-Garrity v. New Jersey (1967) 385 U.S. 493

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May, 2012

Chief Beck on Gotcha 

When Chief Bratton replaced Chief Parks as the head of the Department, he had an immediate problem. The Parks harsh disciplinary system had convinced patrol officers that the mere act of getting out of their cars risked career suicide. Thus, smile-and-wave was replacing stop-and-frisk. Predictably, arrests went way down and crime went way up. When Bratton addressed his first Delegate’s Conference, he told the audience of delegates that he had never seen a department that ate its own like the LAPD did. He said he wanted that changed. To that end, he made a promise to the troops. He said it repeatedly and he published it in The Beat in April 2003, among other places.   [Full Article]

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