Erika D. Smith: What happens when 'tough on crime' meets weak on police reform? Not public safety
by Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times
Mar 18, 2022
3 minutes
Violent crime is up in California. So is the public's fear of crime. And so is the poll-driven, tough-on-crime political rhetoric.
But if that leads to some sort of blind trust in law enforcement and an abandonment of police reform, we will all be the worse off for it.
Few things demonstrate this more clearly than the most recent meeting of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
On Tuesday, the commissioners heard a breakdown of a new report from the LAPD's inspector general, outlining just how ineffectual some of their oversight work has apparently been over the last few
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