POLITICALLY CORRECT POLICE CHIEF

It’s really sad how LAPD is being subjected to political correctness. Unfortunately, LAPD is far from the only police agency that that has been forced to make sure it’s practices will always be politically correct.

JUST CALL THE LAPD THE LAPC
By Doug McIntyre

Los Angeles Daily News
December 17, 2011

Politically Correct Charlie Beck strikes again.

As Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's designated wingman, the police chief is the principal apologist for the sanctuary city policies that have turned L.A. into - as author David Rieff dubbed it back in 1992 - "The Capital of the Third World."

Whenever the mayor needs to un-enforce laws against the hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants living here, he sends for the chief. After all, everyone loves the LAPD, so if the top cop thinks something's a good idea, it has to be, right?

The latest politically correct brainstorm from Beck goes something like this: since illegal immigrants can't legally drive in California - duh - their cars are more likely to be impounded. Same as yours or mine if we get caught driving without a license.

"But that's not fair!" says PCCB. "There's a vast difference between someone driving without a license because they cannot legally be issued one and someone driving after having their license revoked."

And there is a vast difference; just not the one Beck's trying to bamboozle us with.

Unlike illegal immigrants, even drunks who've had their driving privileges yanked had to pass a driving test at some point. While a license itself doesn't guarantee responsible driving - James Loney has one - at least it let us know it was the Dodgers' first baseman snoring in his Maserati on the 101 and not Albert Pujols, Prince Fielder or the Queen of Sheba for that matter. With illegal immigrant drivers we don't know anything, not even the driver's real name.

Under Beck's plan, an illegal immigrant driver will be granted the privilege of calling a licensed friend to pick up his or her car so it doesn't make an expensive trip to the impound yard.

It will be up to the discretion of each officer to determine who is an illegal immigrant driver as opposed to some chowderhead like me who's forever leaving his wallet on the dresser. Which is a new spin on Special Order 40.

For decades, the LAPD has prohibited officers from using their judgment when it comes to determining immigration status. Now cops will be required to decide who is and isn't here legally in order to NOT impound an illegal immigrant's vehicle. You can't make this up.

The police union objects, rightly, claiming this idiocy would keep dangerous drivers on our roads. But it also represents something graver - an egregious codification of L.A.'s double standard when it comes to law enforcement; one set of penalties for citizens and a get-out-of-everything-free card for illegals.

If Beck gets his way, it's time to re-brand the LAPD, the LAPC.