A watching eye
At last, an outside monitor?
COMPLIMENTS come cheap in campaign season, but the officers standing at the back of the meeting still grin when the candidate announces that Los Angeles has the “finest police department in America”. On the stump, both James Hahn and his opponent Antonio Villaraigosa pay their respects to the Los Angeles police. But whichever of them is elected mayor on June 5th will have to tackle the problems of an institution with, it seems clear, too proud a tradition of independence.
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