Deployment of LAPD Officers
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Regarding your article about priorities in the LAPD, let me add one. While rapists, murderers and gangs terrorize the city, why do police officers waste their time arresting traffic offenders? I do not mean drunk drivers, who should be put away, but people arrested for traffic warrants. A person arrested for a $200 traffic warrant takes anywhere from 20 minutes to two hours to be booked, which means it takes one-fourth of the officer’s shift to book one offender, who will be given time-served in court!
Let’s have a moratorium on traffic warrant arrests and see what happens to the serious arrests.
LEONARD GAWLIK
Buena Park
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