The Los Angeles police chief and the department’s constitutional policing director are under investigation after the names and photographs of undercover officers were released to a technology watchdog group that posted them online, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Where's the link?
ReplyDeleteAmazing what a Google search can get you… I was able to find it after a few minutes of searching.
DeleteWiscoDave
Now that is funny!!!
ReplyDeleteAnd LAPD was just okey-padokey-fine last year when the AG "accidentally" released the names, etc. of CCW license holders in CA a couple of days after NYSRPA v Bruen came down.
ReplyDeleteHow does it fee-eel?
The next time some government official says, "Of course, safeguards will be put in place so that disclosure of private information will never happen."
ReplyDeleteI used to hang around drug dealers. It's a serious game. People were responsible for "watching" cop shops and keeping track of every car that came and went, looking for patterns, making connections, and such. I doubt anything's changed in the past 15 years.
ReplyDeleteBig city police departments are aware of this. Anyone doing serious undercover work is only setting foot inside a police station in the movies. Imagine spending months or years setting your identity up, earning trust, and having someone from "Knock LA" publishing all of your details for the world to see. With no heads up so you can put your wife and children into protective custody or anything like that.
My dad was a cop in South Carolina when I was a kid. If this had happened then:
ReplyDeleteBreaking news the body of former Knock LA Reporter, Ben Camacho, was found behind the South Central LA Walmart and behind the East LA Target and behind the Wilshire Blvd McDonalds. Film from the various locations at 6. In a possible related story. The Knock LA headquarters was burned to the ground last night in a fire of unknown origins. Global Warming is suspected...