Opinion: In today’s pages: Is immigration Bush’s domestic Iraq?
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The editorial board asks the Police Commission to look at the big picture when considering Police Chief William J. Bratton for reappointment:
The commission has until July 27 to act. Though it may vote sooner than that, reappointing Bratton without knowing why the command-and-control system failed last month would signal a lack of interest, at best, in the opinion of the City Council, which has scheduled a follow-up hearing. At worst, it would risk minimizing the public’s well-founded concern over the incident. Selecting, overseeing and supervising the chief are the most important functions the commission performs. This is thus a test not just of Bratton but of the commission itself.
The board also explains why phone fraud scams happen.
On the op-ed page, blogger Mickey Kaus explains why immigration is Bush’s domestic Iraq. Columnist Gregory Rodriguez shows how the Stanford imposter shows we all have a bit of hustler inside us, and columnist Niall Ferguson discusses how generations of Westerners have tried and failed to reform Africa.
On the letters page, see why North Hollywood’s Josh Solberg thinks ‘Henry A. Kissinger attempts to put one over on the American people’ in his recent op-ed.
Online, this week’s dust-up begins with lawyers Kelli L. Sager and Alison Berry Wilkinson debating police officer privacy and the public’s right to know. Today, they consider whether California cities were right to close police disciplinary hearings.