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https://www.europesays.com/news/25723/ Why it took 65 years for L.A. to build its most important rail line #city #DLineExtension #Downtown #fairfax #Headlines #LA #LocalOfficial #Metro #MiracleMile #News #plan #project #PublicTransitExpert #subway #TopStories #wilshire #year #ZevYaroslavsky
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CW: Some thoughts on municipal politics and police in Atlanta and Los Angeles
I don't know anything about Atlanta municipal politics other than what I watched all day yesterday, but in Los Angeles, no matter what our charter says, pragmatically the council has no control over the police. How could they? Their only power is the power to pass laws and LAPD won't obey them. Theoretically they have the power of the purse, but here as in Atlanta yesterday, they will not use it.
The explanation for this that's most plausible to me and many others is that the police have some kind of covert control over the council. Occasionally hints of their methods are revealed, e.g. when they were caught spying on councilmember Zev Yaroslavsky and planting lies about him in the press, but their methods, whatever they are, are mostly visible from their effects.
Max Felker-Kantor's Policing Los Angeles is a good read on this subject.
https://www.worldcat.org/title/1119763279
#Atlanta #LosAngeles #LA #ATL #LAPD #APD #MaxFelkerKanter #ZevYaroslavsky