Political Sabotage: the Lapd Experience; Attitudes Toward Understanding Police Use of Force:

While Political Sabotage cannot be the answer for all in understanding social crime and violence, or police use of force to control it, it does attempt to provide a focus and single source toward that goal.

What facts and experience create the subtleties and, to some, "the mystique of police culture?" Is a true unprofessional "code of silence" part of it, and is that culture an intentionally closed club for those wearing the badge of authority in the Los Angeles Police Department? Were that "culture" and the use of force in the attempt to control crime and violence responsible for its downfall? And does diversity and affirmative action exist as co-conspirators? Or will it all remain as the unknown result of the influence and impact of the emotional and ideological attitudes found in our American society and its sometimes politicized, attorney dominated, and unjust justice system?

What part did political sabotage play in orchestrating what some in their academic isolation and a supporting media then label as, "the ineffective administration of a corrupt LAPD?" And what led that leadership, through a moderate level of hesitation and silence to a federal consent decree and various "commission investigations," and to every activist and media embellished blame, to forgo concerted effort to retain the best parts of what had once made the LAPD the most innovative, respected, effective and efficient police organization in America?

These questions have long had more truthful answers and more complete explanations.