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straight outta camden · 01-08-2009, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by fastfilm

He wrote that I could re-post this. People in bubbles still don't believe he's telling the truth.

This post was off-base when it was written as is off-base now. Cities with 50,000 to 75,000 people don't have crime? Uh, how about Irvington and the other little New Jersey cities west of Manhattan? How about Saginaw, Michigan, which last year had a higher violent crime than any big city in the country?

And Chicago cops don't see what LAPD cops do? Puh-lease. I once met a homicide cop from Minneapolis who had recently come back from Chicago. He told me that people in the projects were throwing their kids off balconies in the hope of collecting money from the city.

Much as I respect cops and enjoy their company, they make lousy sociologists and worse statisticians.

And the desert not beautiful? Come on.

BennyPhoenix · 01-08-2009, 03:30 PM

I dont live in fear. That cop is letting his work get to him. Maybe I should be afraid, but I am not.

ebuch · 01-08-2009, 06:46 PM

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Originally Posted by BennyPhoenix

I dont live in fear. That cop is letting his work get to him. Maybe I should be afraid, but I am not.

To defend the article I'm sure he's talking about certain sections of the city and the most dangerous parts of the projects, I'd hope he didn't mean the entire LA city/county.

Bunny Foofoo · 01-11-2009, 11:24 AM

I am not an officer but I do volunteer work with LAPD doing surveillance of neighborhoods in our division .

CHATTY CATHY · 01-11-2009, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Bunny Foofoo

I am not an officer but I do volunteer work with LAPD doing surveillance of neighborhoods in our division .

And you guys are awesome !
We have that in our neighborhood and I feel totally safe !

EDDIEISTAZ · 01-11-2009, 07:15 PM

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You see, even if you are wealthy and live in a gated community or mansion, you still need a hair cut, toiletries from the local drug store, milk, bread and eggs from the market and (over priced) gas from the local pumps. It is there that the fight for your life, the fear of being robbed and catching a disease from some virus infested goober trying to get money for drugs - they're not going to buy soup. (Try this social science experiment for those bleeding hearts out there. Next time you are hit up by someone who needs money to eat - offer to buy them a sandwich and see how much hostility you are met with. I've done it.)

I tried this with mixed results some will take your food but most just want money so i just give out to those that want food not cash.
As to being scared of being in LA well im not and i used to live in the south central ghettos its just a minset things will happen anywere dont worry about it till it happens or youll just live a paranoid life and thats not worth the worry.

sarahkate_m · 08-24-2009, 03:24 AM

that whole la riot thing was such a nightmare. if the media hadn't been re-running that footage of the beating, the whole thing wouldn't have gone down like it did.

of course people shouldn't be beaten by the police, but that had been going on for decades... i was married to a white guy who grew up on the wrong side of chicago. he said the cops used to pick him up on the other side of town, beat his butt & send him running home through the rival territories.

granted that was 40 years ago. and he wasn't beaten as badly as king... jeez that was a bad karma thing to have on tape.

if i were a cop, i'd keep it on the DL too. but not because of the king fiasco.

to the cops here online: thanks for being heros. i hope the bullets miss you & i hope the stress itself of babysitting criminals doesn't kill you.