Police need more training on civil rights

Choosing Lesser Evils

RE: RLN Aug. 18, 2022: “Which Way LA—Bass or the Billionaire?” by Paul Rosenberg

What a financial waste to mail out election ballots to six million registered voters (county) and get a 30% return. Has either candidate for mayor attended a council meeting in the three years before the start of their campaign?

Los Angeles government is at a standstill, spinning its wheels and the Public sees the shell game. This city and its politicians face: government systemic pattern and practice housing discrimination; racist millionaire landlords; the need for criminal penalties for violating the tenant anti-harassment ordinance and the home sharing ordinance; racist and unethical practices of the planning, zoning, rent control, city clerk, neighborhood empowerment, and code enforcement departments; anti-diversity gentrification that is ridding this city of the middle, affordable, and low income residents; the need for a moratorium on market rate apartments; the need for an election nominating process that is strictly online; election and contribution limits capped at $5,000 per candidate; the dollars, unaccountable to the public, spent by the Metro and the Mayor’s Fund; denial of constitutional rights; the need for more training of Police on civil rights and the state Unruh Act; the need for housing that is “full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges or services of every kind” (CC 51); slavery reparations to Black citizens; and a solution for increased traffic and parking congestion. 

That is what I think about when I realize we face the election of the lessor of two evils for Mayor.

G. Juan Johnson

Los Angeles

(As Published to newspaper and online 9/1/22 Random Lengths News. Also as seen in Los Angeles city clerk published CPRA Request 22-9492 . )

City Los Angeles Election November 2022