{"id":40809,"date":"2025-11-06T14:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40809\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T14:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:00:07","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-why-isnt-the-word-of-an-lapd-captain-being-taken-more-seriously","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40809\/","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>To the editor: 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\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":2,"featured_media":40810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[17358,26498,2072,48,52,51,23803,1838,27722,47,50,49,2612,592,27720,23806,2058,27723,10368,3025,27721],"class_list":["post-40809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-city-attorney","tag-declaration","tag-editor","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lapd-captain","tag-letter","tag-lie","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-oct","tag-people","tag-police-captain","tag-police-tactic","tag-protest","tag-ray-mckown","tag-score","tag-statement","tag-word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}