Friday, February 18, 2005

LAPD Changes Shooting Policy

I suppose it's just a coincidence, but just about two weeks after an African American eighth grader named Devin Brown was fatally shot ten times by LAPD officers, in the middle of a hotly contested mayoral campaign, the Police Commission unanimously approved a change in the policy which allowed officers to shoot into moving vehicles. Whether this will ameliorate police-community relations in a city where the police chief says we have been on "riot watch" remains to be seen. Initial response does not seem good, the Department is complaining that there is "no money in the budget" to retrain officers to comply with the new policy.... Does it strike anyone else as odd that LAPD officers have to be trained not to gun down children in cold blood?

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