Los Angeles County prosecutors on Friday charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues' racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job.
Yes, fixing LAPD is maybe impossible task, I wish the city would try to create a new police department, start from scratch and disband LAPD once there is some momentum. I don’t think LAPD is even doing anything useful at this point.
For example, there was (I think) law that police can’t stop driver if the only issue is expired license plate registration sticker. They did malicious compliance and I now see cars without license plates (mostly driven by rich fucks) which is very different thing.
They did malicious compliance and I now see cars without license plates (mostly driven by rich fucks) which is very different thing.
The rich people driving without plates isn’t new. That’s been a thing for decades. Famously, Steve Jobs never had a plate on his vehicles. Granted, there he took advantage of a loophole related to grace periods, and his ability to just trade back in and lease a new vehicle twice a year… but the rich ignoring simple laws like that isn’t new.
The fine for not having a plate is minimal to them even when they’re caught.
All financial penalties across the board should be a sliding scale based on income and net worth. You don’t even have to figure out percentages directly for each infraction… just make it so all financial penalties are relative to something like the poverty line or minimum wage, and then you multiply based on how much they make above that line.
$200 penalty ($197 plus court costs technically, rounding for simplicity) at minimum wage which is roughly $35k/yr in CA currently… If their income was $35M last year that penalty would be $200k instead (I think I did that math right). $200k every time a cop pulls them over for no plate starts to add up pretty quickly.
The lapd seems so entrenched I legitimately think the only way to “fix” them is a hostile occupation where they are all arrested by the military for being the bunch of gangster thugs they actually are. Oh and don’t forget the prosecutors and judges who intentionally enable them. They get to go to jail too.
Yes, fixing LAPD is maybe impossible task, I wish the city would try to create a new police department, start from scratch and disband LAPD once there is some momentum. I don’t think LAPD is even doing anything useful at this point.
For example, there was (I think) law that police can’t stop driver if the only issue is expired license plate registration sticker. They did malicious compliance and I now see cars without license plates (mostly driven by rich fucks) which is very different thing.
The rich people driving without plates isn’t new. That’s been a thing for decades. Famously, Steve Jobs never had a plate on his vehicles. Granted, there he took advantage of a loophole related to grace periods, and his ability to just trade back in and lease a new vehicle twice a year… but the rich ignoring simple laws like that isn’t new.
The fine for not having a plate is minimal to them even when they’re caught.
All financial penalties across the board should be a sliding scale based on income and net worth. You don’t even have to figure out percentages directly for each infraction… just make it so all financial penalties are relative to something like the poverty line or minimum wage, and then you multiply based on how much they make above that line.
$200 penalty ($197 plus court costs technically, rounding for simplicity) at minimum wage which is roughly $35k/yr in CA currently… If their income was $35M last year that penalty would be $200k instead (I think I did that math right). $200k every time a cop pulls them over for no plate starts to add up pretty quickly.
The lapd seems so entrenched I legitimately think the only way to “fix” them is a hostile occupation where they are all arrested by the military for being the bunch of gangster thugs they actually are. Oh and don’t forget the prosecutors and judges who intentionally enable them. They get to go to jail too.
Didnt work well in West Germany.
The children of barbarians become the new tax collectors and priests