Bad cop. Alcoholic cop. But I repeat myself.
Asked by U.S. District Court Judge Gary A. Feess why he became involved in a robbery ring of rogue LAPD cops, Gabriel Loaiza responded, "I have no excuse. Just plain stupidity.â€
Loaiza's cousin Ruben Palomares, the ringleader, told Feess that he failed to face up to "problems"as a young police officer. Palomares, now 38, told the judge, "Instead of facing my problems, I ran from them.â€
So wrote Scott Glover in an L.A. Times piece, "Rogue LAPD cop gets 13 years,"on the sentencing of both Loaiza and Palomares. As usual in the media, the focus is on symptoms ("stupidity"and "problemsâ€) rather than root causes. Even recovering addicts years into sobriety make this mistake.
The trouble is journalists are limited in terms of offering ...
