LAPD Scandal
* Your March 30 editorial, “Bend a Rule to Get Results,” advocates the Los Angeles Police Department offering a break to officers who step forward now with information about criminal misconduct they witnessed years ago but never reported. Bend a rule to get results? That could well have been the credo of those accused in the Rampart matter. This is the same misguided “the ends justify the means” thinking that seduced those officers into forsaking their integrity.
Police officers have an ethical responsibility to do the right thing. Nothing less is acceptable. People with integrity don’t bend the rules. Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti is acting like a desperate man. Please don’t encourage him.
GEORGE L. IBARRA
Bell Canyon
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* Joseph Wambaugh correctly pointed out (Commentary, March 8) how effective Tom Reddin was as police chief and how well he would have handled the Rampart matter. So why don’t our officials at least consult with him?
RICHARD M. MOSK
Los Angeles
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Mosk was a member of the Christopher Commission.
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