California’s Law-and-Order Culture Shows Cracks

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http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-01/california-s-law-and-order-culture-shows-cracks.html


Illustration by Eric Timothy Carlson

California voters veer hard to the right on law-and-order issues, as politicians from both major parties have learned, defying stereotypes of a state of loony leftists. In recent months, attitudes have shown signs of changing.

After a video went viral of a campus police officer pepper- spraying a line of peaceful protesters at the University of California at Davis in November, the public reaction was far from sympathetic to the police. Although the Occupy protesters did their best to provoke the police and other citizens in Tuesday’s May Day demonstrations in San Francisco and Oakland, longer-term trends deserve critical attention, too.

The UC Davis incident came after some highly publicized cases of police shootings and abuse, and amid general grumbling over revelations of eye-popping pay and benefit packages for California’s public-safety workers.

Last month, a panel led by a former state Supreme Court associate justice, Cruz Reynoso, released a report highly critical of how the police handled the Davis pepper-spray incident, prompting the campus police chief to resign.

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1. Is this true? "Occupy protesters did their best to provoke the police and other citizens"..

Because that sure sounds like propaganda to me..

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2. oh of course it's horseshit...

cali has their issues w/ crap like Black Bloc --

but we have a huge history of peaceful protests who don't provoke any body -- except that the police act provoked any way...


*** i write this like i still there.