Readers React:  ‘Falsified’ doesn’t describe what the LAPD did on ‘ghost cars’

To the editor: Systematically “mislabeling” felonies as misdemeanors and inflating the number of patrol hours to meet quotas are simply dishonest actions. (“LAPD deployed ‘ghost cars’ to meet staffing standards, report finds,” Oct. 10)

If this is what residents can expect from their police department, then mustn’t we start to wonder what we should be able to get away with?

Richard Geist, Rancho Mirage

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To the editor: Might I put in a vote for more candor?

Your print headline about police staff levels being “falsified” really means that the police lied. The term “falsified” is properly a term from philosophy of science, indicating methods for checking theories.

So, let us just call a lie a lie. No more such euphemisms, please.

Ivan Strenski, Los Angeles

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