LAPD ready for next May Day
Still coping with the fallout of last year's disastrous May Day immigration-rights rally, the LAPD's top brass said Thursday that they will use lessons they learned to better-police this year's march. Aron Miller in the Daily News.
During a City Hall briefing with local journalists, Cmdr. Sandy Jo MacArthur reviewed the problems Los Angeles police encountered - and created - during last year's May 1 rally at MacArthur Park, including poor coordination, planning and communication and too many decisions left up to individual officers.
Many of those issues were addressed in a scathing October LAPD report in which the department - and specifically Chief William Bratton - took responsibility for the breakdown.
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