{"id":359954,"date":"2025-11-06T14:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359954\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:19:10","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-why-isnt-the-word-of-an-lapd-captain-being-taken-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/359954\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the Editor: Why isn\u2019t the word of an LAPD captain being taken more seriously?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Nov. 6, 2025 5:30 AM PT  <\/p>\n<p><b>To the editor<\/b>: During my 27 years as a federal attorney, I asked scores of people to sign sworn declarations that I drafted \u2014 but only after I interviewed them to give me the facts that described the situation. I never asked a declarant to sign a declaration that had been drafted without his or her input.<\/p>\n<p>In this case, a police captain apparently told a city attorney that at least some of the statements in the declaration were a \u201clie\u201d (<a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/california\/story\/2025-10-31\/lapd-protest-use-of-force-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLAPD captain claims city pushed misleading statement to justify police tactics at protest,\u201d<\/a> Oct. 31). Yet the State Bar found there was \u201cinsufficient evidence\u201d to discipline the attorney for allegedly pressuring the police captain to sign a declaration that, according to Los Angeles Police Department Capt. Johnny Smith, contained lies.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m left to wonder why the word of a police captain, with corroboration from a former police commissioner, wasn\u2019t enough to discipline the city attorney.<\/p>\n<p>Ray McKown, Torrance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 6, 2025 5:30 AM PT To the editor: During my 27 years as a federal attorney, I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":359955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,66372,83912,7129,2961,170332,19945,175057,224,5337,17851,3546,175056,170333,1809,175058,5968,11004,27020],"class_list":{"0":"post-359954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-city-attorney","11":"tag-declaration","12":"tag-editor","13":"tag-la","14":"tag-lapd-captain","15":"tag-letter","16":"tag-lie","17":"tag-los-angeles","18":"tag-losangeles","19":"tag-oct","20":"tag-people","21":"tag-police-captain","22":"tag-police-tactic","23":"tag-protest","24":"tag-ray-mckown","25":"tag-score","26":"tag-statement","27":"tag-word"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115503193510803577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}