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WHY CONNIE RICE IS PARTLY WRONG
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2013 AT 1:11PM |
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Connie Rice is a respected civil rights attorney who has decided to join the "dark side", as she jokingly calls it, by becoming a Los Angeles Police Department adviser. Working on the inside of any mainstream institution is a difficult adjustment for an outside advocate to make, but joining the LAPD is especially tricky for a former NAACP Legal Defense Fund lawyer. Rice also receives hundreds of thousands of dollars from Los Angeles' city government for reports and advice on police reform.
She ardently supported William Bratton as LAPD chief and she has lobbied for him to become New York's new chief. With Rice vouching for him, it became easy for new Mayor Bill de Blasio to embrace Bratton's return to New York.
So who is right in the argument over Bratton? Reformer or not? Pusher of "broken windows" targeting of inner city youth, or the man who won over LA's black and brown communities? It