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My Friday morning began with a question from a reader on yesterday's search of an armed robbery suspect in Lomita:

"You call this News? No description. Not sure if anything was stolen. Glad to see that you knew he was an adult.
Why not wait till you get some facts before you waste my bandwidth with something like this?"

I guess I'll tackle these questions one at a time. Yes, I call this news. We had several inquiries from the community about the helicopters circling overhead and concerns about a "wierd" thing in "such a small town and it is happening even here these days," as one resident wrote in an e-mail to me.

As for what I knew (or what I didn't know), what you need to understand is that reporters are only the messengers. We don't make the news, nor are we involved in how it plays out. If you have a problem with how much information was (or was not) released, then that is an issue to take up with the Lomita Sheriff's Department. We fight this fight daily, and you're welcome to lead a battle.

I had all the facts that were available. Believe me, I wish that in every breaking news situation, we had all the information RIGHT NOW accurately and completely. Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work like that, but we're working hard to keep our readers as up-to-date on their community as possible. I apologize if that seems like a waste of anything to anybody.

Thank you to this reader for his questions, they are absolutely understandable and legitimate. And thank you for not writing in all capital letters or calling me names in the process. I know it's tempting, but it's nice when we can all get along.

 

 

 

Readers write:
Q. Great article. (Torrance methamphetamine crackdown). I'm curious were any of these suspects illegals?

Jim, Torrance

A. Fourteen alleged felons are facing deportation.

Steve McDonald writes:

Larry,

"Just wanted you to know that you have fans out there! Even though I moved off to Santa Barbara from the South Bay I still read the Daily Breeze (hard copy and online) regularly because of your articles and your blog. I lived in the South Bay for 46 years, my folks still live there. Keep up the great work and thanks."

Bobbie, a resident of Torrance says:

"Thank you for the front page article about our Torrance Police Department. Larry did a great job! To the men and women who worked on "Operation Accountability"...thank you for all the hard work. Just relieved to hear none of our police were hurt.

A wake up call to our community that drugs traffic and its people are here selling drugs to local residents and our kids. They maybe our neighbors! Its really scary to read in Larry's article the amount and types of drugs and the amount of weapons that were confiscated!
Just hope these major suppliers will think twice before they decide to move into the South Bay. This article brought it home to all of us to know drugs is around us.

Thank you Torrance Police for continuing to make our community a safe place. Thank you Larry for that great article!! It really made my day!"