risk of being violently arrested yourself, merely for protesting against LAPD repression. No one who would be a target of this LAPD repression would dare set foot in one of Eichmann Beck's 'community meetings.'

See accounts of LAPD brutality during recent protests against LAPD brutality or of LAPD's raid on Occupy Los Angeles last November 30 if you don't believe me.

This is such transparent horseshit.

In my area, LAPD is invisible. You NEVER see a black and white...and we are only about 3 miles from the Harbor station!

Every so often, we wonder at home, where the hell are they at? And what are they doing? And when?

We pay and pay and pay for the PD but never see them. And, when we lived near a Section 8 apartment complex, calling PD because of drugs, guns, vandals, truants and gang activity as well as homeless that were living in RVs on a couple of side streets...the standard answer, 99% of the time was, we can't do anything. To this day, I'm amazed at what the police say they cannot do for us.

we see numerous LAPD car patrols patrolling homes and condos of the (we think) top 1% (or at least top 10%).

I plan to write a longer essay on the topic soon. There's a very strong possibility that federal DHS monies are being used to fund these patrols of the ruling class's beachside enclaves.

and kinda funny.

Us poor people in the Harbor Gateway, Harbor City, Wilmington, San Pedro areas usually get short end of the deal any way.

Another laugh is that all those areas are unincorporated City of Los Angeles...if you look at a map, we look like a thermometer...we and the Port are at the bottom with the money, it then travels up to the Top (aka, City Hall) and then it just disappears.

Ain't no Trickle Down happening for us!

cars patrolling on what seemed a continuous loop, with 3-4 cars covering the same 8-10 block circuit, such that a car was visible about once every 2-3 minutes. The presence was so noticeable that I commented on it to my wife who it turns out had also noticed. We think the patrols are down there primarily to intimidate and harass Latinos and blacks (and gringo revolutionaries like us) who, if given free reign, might bring down the precious 1%'s property values. It was positively creepy though, getting eyeballed by LA's finest every five minutes while doing nothing other than walking on a sidewalk.

So if you're actually dependent on them to keep the streets safe for regular people, forget it - that's too much work for them.

They spend their time on their rackets - harassing anyone who isn't white, of European/English descent, with perfect English, straight, Christian, etc.

Lots of money in busting people's balls for smoking weed, or cooking up false charges to put people in the system.

If you're rich, and you grease some palms, they'll protect you, just like the NYPD protects Goldman Sachs.

Didn't you know, police officers are your smiling friends who rescue kittens!

DU certainly has its share of authoritarian quislings.