CSI: Los Angeles

CSI: Los Angeles By Walter Moore, Candidate for Mayor of Los Angeles, WalterMooreForMayor.com October 24, 2008 Have you heard about the latest spin-off of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation?” It’s set in Los Angeles. Crime-fighting scientists go to crime scenes, take pictures, make measurements, collect samples, and look for fingerprints. They interview rape victims, and collect evidence from them using rape kits. Then the investigators return to headquarters, throw all the evidence in a locker, and go home. This happens again and again, as thousand of rape kits go unprocessed, finger print evidence gets mixed up, criminals run scot free, children get gunned down in broad daylight -- sometimes in high schools -- and innocent people get extradited from other states based on mistaken readings of fingerprints. Meanwhile, the police chief -- unable to manage his own department, which is under a federal consent decree -- keeps asking for millions more to finish construction of a bigger, better headquarters that keeps experiencing cost overruns, year after year. Rather than fixing the problems in his own department, travels around the world giving speeches on how to fight crime. When he is in town, the chief publicly criticizes his officers for not understanding his policy of aiding and abetting illegal aliens, and says he’ll clarify the policy, some day, when he has the time. The chief also records campaign messages for a presidential candidate; and he writes an op-ed for an out-of-state newspaper saying terrorists may bomb America to help elect a Republican president. Now, I’m no TV producer, but I don’t think this series will catch on. No one would ever believe America’s second-biggest city would tolerate such incompetence.