Opinion: In today’s pages: Police accountability and Paris in prison
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Writer John Kenney pens the Paris Hilton prison diaries in today’s op-ed pages:
Gandhi went to prison. So did Martin Luther King Jr. So did Robert Downey Jr. and Martha Stewart Jr. and I think Nelson Mandela Jr. Mandela was imprisoned for, like, 50 years or something for being black and also for driving an uninsured vehicle, if I’m reading Wikipedia correctly. Nicky often mentions me and Gandhi and how incredibly thin we both are and how she wonders if he used bronzer.
Columnist Jonah Goldberg sticks up for anti-illegal-immigration stalwarts, and author Meir Shalev reflects on the forty years since the Six Day War.
The editorial board doesn’t think child rapists (or anyone else) deserves the death penalty. It also asks the City Council to back open police disciplinary hearings and asks the state Assembly to support a strong customer protection bill against credit card information theft.
On the letters page, see what three Southern Californians think of regional officials’ plan to ban wood-burning fireplaces. Jeff Camp, for one, asks, ‘What’s next? Banning barbecues in the summer?’
This week’s dust-up on police disciplinary hearings continues as lawyers Kelli L. Sager and Alison Berry Wilkinson debate state Sen. Gloria Romero’s bill to open hearings.
And two blowbacks respond to a previous blowback: Lou Cannon writes in response to what he calls a ‘compendium of falsehoods and innuendos,’ and former Santa Barbara News-Press editor Jerry Roberts laments his old paper’s declining sense of ethics.