LA's next top cop
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Mayor Villaraigosa hasn't officially announced it yet, but word is, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck is his pick for new LAPD chief. A 32-year veteran of the LAPD, Beck oversaw reforms of the department's Rampart division in the wake of its corruption scandal. If confirmed by the City Council, Beck will take the place of outgoing Chief William Bratton, who is credited with dramatic declines in LA's crime rate during his seven years in the position. How well will Beck fill Bratton’s shoes?
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2 weeks, 3 days ago
I'm concerned about two instances of what I considered "loose lips" in Charlie Beck's appearance in today's news conference.
The first was Beck referring to the "ghost" days of the LAPD as the 90s. This can only alienate City Council-person Parks (and shows poor diplomacy) but also ignores the fact that the 80s, 70s, and 60s (to limit the days to ones I experienced first-had) were not so great either.
Second. His comment that he would pull strings to get his daughter time-off, was I suppose, intended to be "funny", but to me it was a "foot-in-the-mouth" moment. He's joking about abusing his authority to advance, if not "nepotism", at the least special favors for his child.
This comments really make me question Beck's wisdom and political savvy. There struck me as "not ready for prime-time" moments.
I hope I'm wrong!
Bill Cartwright (Bob's brother)
2 weeks, 3 days ago
Maybe now that we have a detective running the LAPD, we can get an investigation into the previous Chief's connections to high-level suspects in the 9/11 covert operation and what, if any, moles he left behind that might pose a danger to our city's security. Remember that, coincidentally or not, 9/11 happened just a few years after Bratton left the NYPD. And for those who are familiar with the latest, most solid independent science and analysis, it is clear that the WTC and the humans inside were destroyed in controlled fashion using advanced nano-tech explosives, of which remnants have been found in dust samples from the WTC and analyzed by a group of scientists from around the country and the world.
If you are interested in investigating this start with the science and analysis:
- www.ae911truth.org (almost 1000 Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth)
- http://www.bentham-open.org/pages/content.php?TOCPJ/2009/00000002/00000001/7TOCPJ.SGM (paper analyzing nanothermite explosive)
-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_tf25lx_3o (lead Danish scientist on paper being interviewed on Danish MSM- why have we not heard about this here on MSM or alternative media such as KPCC?)
Then, after you have learned what physically happened in lower manhattan on 9/11/01, go search "Bratton 9/11 Kroll" and begin investigating the 'security' networks that sit at the base of the treasonous 9/11 covert operation. Jerome Hauer, who Bratton calls "Jerry" and Michael Cherkasky, who was not only the overseer of the Federal Consent Decree but is now Bratton's boss at Altegrity, were, respectively, the Managing Director and CEO of Kroll Inc. which was heading up human security at the WTC before and on 9/11/01. These people, apparently, are threats to National Security. Elements of FBI are looking into this information. It's time for LAPD, under the new Chief, to do their own investigation.
Someone needs to get the new Police Chief, detective that he is, to investigate any "stay behind" mole networks that might have some new generated 'national security' crises in the pipe for us here in LA. This is how this type of thing is done. Go research NATO's "stay behind" armies in the post-WWII era, under the name "Operation Gladio," that ended up helping implement "false-flag" terrorist bombings done against innocent civilians all around Europe.
Our National and City security depends on us to attend to this disturbing information.
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Go look at a video and article about Bratton being questioned about false-flag terrorism, and not denying its history or denouncing its immorality here:
http://www.911blogger.com/node/18733
2 weeks, 3 days ago
I wonder though outside of the progressive and independent radio/newspaper/T.V./Los Angeles Police Officers and their union/community activists will anyone have the intestinal fortitude to question:
01) William Bratton
02) Former Mayor James Hahn
03) Mayor Villaraigosa
04) U.S. District Court Judge Gary A. Feess
05) Los Angeles City Council
If there were any impropriety hiring Kroll and Associates to monitor our LAPD under the federal consent decree, the same corporation that Bratton was an employee of, and surprise surprise, a subsidiary of TARP-bailed AIG? For more than seven years, Kroll monitored the LAPD, answering to AIG and charged millions of dollars to not only the citizens of the City of Los Angeles, but the people of the United States? Here is the break down of Kroll's monitoring of our police department:
http://www.kroll.com/about/library/lapd/
Oh and was it sheer coincidence that once the decree was lifted by Judge Feess on July 17, 2009:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/07/judge-frees-lapd-from-consent-decree.html
That Bratton was immediately hired by the Altegrity, an associate of Kroll and another subsidiary of AIG on August 06, 2009?
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/06/local/me-bratton6
Someone needs to ask these questions as our money was used to not only make a profit for a private corporation, but possibly a quid pro quo for a job well done...you know, getting bailed out not just by the Bush and Obama administration, but by the Villaraigosa administration too.
Isn't this worth investigating? Is not, as Jeremy mentioned above worth the security of our nation as well as the city to keep the I in integrity? And who knows what puppet or stooge or mole Bratton left behind to keep OUR police department on a short leash? By not doing anything about it, would ONLY make our city our state that much vulnerable to who knows what?