The LA Times Metro Story: Some Missing Context
By Los Angeles Police Protective League
LAPPL News Watch
January 28, 2019
The January 24 L.A. Times article “‘Stop-and-frisk in a car:’ Elite LAPD unit disproportionately stopped black drivers data shows,” is the epitome of cherry-picking data to align with a preconceived false narrative.
That false narrative, promulgated by the Times and its deliberate omission of important contextual data, admittedly zero evidence and any semblance of fair analysis, is designed to paint Metropolitan Division officers as racists who randomly stop black drivers.
That reckless charge is offensive, it’s not true and is one of the worst kinds of lies anyone can tell.
Let’s be very clear. Los Angeles police officers target behavior, not skin color.
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