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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow. It's not like the "LAPD Protective League" POLITICIZED dropping Harris protection at all. NOT AT ALL!
A dozen or more LAPD officers began working a detail to protect Harris after Trump revoked her Secret Service protection as of Monday. Sources not authorized to discuss the details of the plan said the city would fund the security but that the arrangement was expected to be brief, with Harris hiring her own security in the near future.
A security detail was seen outside Harris' Brentwood home by a Fox 11 helicopter as the station broke the story of the use of L.A. police earlier this week.
The Los Angeles Police Protective League, the union that represents rank-and-file LAPD officers, criticized the move.
"Pulling police officers from protecting everyday Angelenos to protect a failed presidential candidate who also happens to be a multi-millionaire... and who can easily afford to pay for her own security, is nuts," its board of directors said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/lapd-ends-protection-former-vice-162559723.html
Nimble_Idea
(2,849 posts)displacedvermoter
(5,001 posts)to get as much pay and benefit for officers as possible, while at the same time making sure there are as few checks on their abuse of the public as possible. Reprehensible thugs.
newdeal2
(5,614 posts)Even in big blue cities they talk like Fox News hosts.
displacedvermoter
(5,001 posts)Wiz Imp
(10,433 posts)lapfog_1
(31,980 posts)She should fire the officers that issued that statement.
Cha
(320,616 posts)Assholes.
AZJonnie
(4,035 posts)Plus they said it's temporary until she can find a private company. And Kamala & Doug may be a 'multi-millionaires' but I doubt they're THAT rich, probably a lot of their wealth is tied up in real-estate. The kind of security she needs to stay safe is not cheap to get on the private market, I would guess you'd be paying upwards of $10K/month for a competent team and I may be way underestimating.
Kingofalldems
(40,368 posts)msongs
(74,203 posts)ProfessorGAC
(77,291 posts)...was a known corrupt cop & thug who got away with it.
And, the rank & file voted for him.
Tells me what I need to know.
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