Inglewood PD shoots man, says nothing

I don't understand Larry Altman's obvious outrage at the fact that "Inglewood PD shot a homeless guy Sunday and the department has no comment?" I wasn't aware that IPD, or any other law-enforcement agency, is under any legal obligation to report their activities to the media. So, why the attitude? Because the press didn't get invited to the party and an opportunity was missed to stir up trouble and maybe sell an extra newspaper or 2? Yep: that'll sure help the sagging circulation numbers that the Daily Sleaze now has to face. Get over yourself, Larry. Contrary to mistaken popular belief and hard as this may be for you to understand, the media is NOT entitled to hand-fed information regarding every single incident that happens in the known universe. The press is NOT the Uber-Guardian of humanity. This is a blow to your fragile ego, I'm sure, but man up and deal with the truth. Oh, sorry: "truth" and "media" are not even in the same dictionary, are they?

Besides, who cares if some piss-bum in Inglewood is now formerly-animated tissue? Less of a taxpayer burden by thinning the herd. It's nature...let it be.

Normally police agencies take a while to release information about shootings, simply because they don't know themselves what transpired. They want to make sure they have accurate information before they disseminate it out to the public by way of the media. Law enforcement is held to a higher standard of truth than all the community activists who immediately rush to the scene of any officer involved shooting with a "lynch the police" attitude. I'd much rather hear one story that's the truth instead of 14 stories ranging from "He was point his gun at the cops" to "He had no gun and was asleep, face down, on the sidewalk when 100 police officers walked up, stood on top of him, then unloaded all their guns while laughing and screaming racial slurs." I can appreciate a delay, as opposed to some knee jerk reaction.