The LAPD need to occupy the Public Square long enough to ensure that the rest of Occupy Everywhere does not stink up and stall the rest of the city's lagging growth.
LAPD Police Chief Charlie Beck is a long way from Long Beach, where the city council has taken on the volatile but necessary challenge of instituting much needed entitlement reform for public safety officers.
As for Los Angeles, Beck sees Occupy Everywhere as a community, not a problem. This Zen approach to law enforcement includes free and open drug use. I wonder how he feels about the rising crime rates stalking these makeshift protest shanties.
Is the man dense, or is the man planning a run for the mayor's office? Either is sheer folly and dereliction of duty. The City of Angels deserves better messengers of peace than a blue wall of solidarity and silence.
The police are sworn to serve and protect the community. Occupy Everywhere is hardly a community, let alone a communal protest action. Beck himself marked out this dichotomy from the first words he shared in the LA Weekly interview.
The Northside of the camp has the (empty!) idealists. The south side he colorfuls labels as more "diverse", when "deviant" would be a better term.
Beck appraises the hodge-podge tent citadel as more than a one-time movement. Yet they are going nowhere precisely because they are anything but a movement. They are a station sortie of whiny pouting adult-babies who demand to be spoon-fed easy gruel by the state.
I respect a police officer's insistence on restraint. At this stage of widespread political unrest, though, one group of miscreants has no right to impose their right to protest at the expense of street vendors, merchants, and city dwellers who want to make a buck as well as make a difference.
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