Garcetti and LAPD

* Dist. Atty. Gil Garcetti should not be surprised at the animosity L.A. voters feel toward his stewardship (“Garcetti Far Behind in Race for Third Term,” April 10).

Voters are resentful of the corruption of police but are downright hostile at the thought of innocent civilians being imprisoned on bogus charges, abetted by a lazy district attorney’s office unempathetic to a weary public.

The buck has to stop somewhere, and it’s up to the county district attorney to rein in his charges. God knows, judges don’t want to do any more work than they have to.

FREDERICK CLEVELAND

Hollywood

* I’ve been following the Rampart scandal and am amazed that once again the system is going after only the weakest of those who are responsible for the debacle. Yes, corrupt police officers should be prosecuted. More important, however, the lawyers who knowingly offered perjured testimony and the judges who knowingly accepted that perjured testimony should be disbarred and removed from the bench.

Can anyone tell me why the district attorney’s office is spending millions of taxpayer dollars pursuing Sara Jane Olson, who has never hurt anyone? The entire system doesn’t work, because there are no realistic priorities.

HADASSA K. GILBERT

Los Angeles

* While Chief Bernard Parks, Mayor Richard Riordan and Dist. Atty. Garcetti are all crashing around, attempting political damage control concerning the Rampart scandal, I find it ironically amusing that Parks misplaced the best PR men he had out there: the senior lead officers.

BETTY VELASCO

Valley Village