Dog, please don’t mislead my readers. You’re referring to the LAPD’s Special Order 40 and you’ve misrepresented its contents with malice:
“Officers shall not initiate police action with the objective of discovering the alien status of a person.”
That doesn’t say police can’t run immigrant status checks. It simply states that immigrant status cannot serve as probable cause to initiate contact. Read: police can’t pull someone over for looking ‘illegal.’ If someone is brought in on other charges unrelated to immigration, then the police can perform a check to see if that person is here legally or not.
So by “some Latino gang members” you mean law abiding Hispanics. And what you’re calling ‘excessive constraints’ on law enforcement is actually your desire to round up all the Hispanics in LA. I guess we know why you left.
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