Police Union tells Garcetti to send his civilian staff to ‘turn off people’s electricity & cut off their water’

Susan Shelley, Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) | Aug 13, 2020 | Fresh Ink | 37 

The union that represents LAPD officers informed Mayor Eric Garcetti that the police will not help him enforce his orders to shut off the water and power to houses where parties are held.  Garcetti said last week he is cracking down on people who have these prohibited gatherings. Of course, the mayor is one person. His ability to enforce anything depends on his ability to order someone to enforce it.

He can order the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to turn off the utilities, because the LADWP is a city-owned utility run by political appointees and staffed mostly by members of public-employee unions whose salary demands are negotiated with the city government.  Theoretically, he can also order the LAPD to enforce his orders. But union leaders are standing up for the officers.

“Mayor Garcetti wants to reimagine policing. He should send his civilian staff to turn off people’s electricity & cut off their water,” the Los Angeles Police Protective League said on Twitter last weekend, “Let officers deal with the rise in shootings and killings in L.A. We need a leader and not a political contortionist.”...........To Read More...