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Removed graffiti --ZekeMacNeil 23:59, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
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[edit] Organization
The comments about the investigaion into a possible conflict of interest in Commissioner Mike Brown needs to be sourced. My contacts at the highway patrol tell me his request to step down is related to family matters - he wants to spend time with his new wife. Actually, I deleted the text, it doesn't belong in the Organization section. I'd like to see a section titled 'SCANDALS', but I doubt there are enough reliable sources for information on them. 169.3.168.227 (talk) 21:28, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
[edit] POV
This:
In Fall of 2005 while Hurrican Katrina was bearing down on the New Orleans,LA area, the CHP made a Pro-Active decision to send aid. It was a decision that was much needed in the coming days. While choas ensued in the New Orleans city streets, the New Orleans Police(NOLA-PD)found a way to disappoint law enforcement nation-wide, that was to just simply quit and allow the city to worsen to the point where citizens were killing eachother and attempting to shootdown rescue helicopters. It took the National Guard twice as much time to arrive than what should normally be expected. Before the Guard had it's first boots on the ground, the CHP had more than three patrol helicopters over New Orleans,fourty plus vehicles on the ground and more than 250 officers and other staff including a SWAT team in New Orleans.
Not encyclopedic. It's POV, poorly written, and unsourced, and it's not really that important to the article. If anything, it belongs in a Katrina-related article. I really think we should take it out. At the very most, a neutral sentence saying that some support was sent to New Orleans is all we need. -Randomglitter 09:12, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
- I concur. --Coolcaesar 13:11, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Update(via the Officer Down Memorial Page)...another CHP officer dies(the first for '07)
Please confirm w/ www.odmp.org and add Officer Douglas Mitchell to the CHP obituary list.
He was struck and killed in the Sacramento suburb of Rancho Cordova on Tuesday(7-31-07), while putting down a "spike strip" to help end a pursuit.
Thanks,Michaela92399 02:50, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
It's Officer Douglas Scott Russell. However, this illuminates a problem with the section of fallen officers. It looks as though it started as a list of those who died within a particular stretch of time, but others have been added on since, with good intent, but not in keeping with the sense of the section. Since the list of fallen officers is not exhaustive and not intended to be exhaustive, perhaps we should remove the 7th entry, to preserve the original point being made. It's that or list all 200. Iconoclastodon 04:26, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Tone in Newhall Incident section
The Newhall Incident section reads like a tabloid article. It's over the top with drama, and the tone is not appropriate for an encyclopedia. It ought to be rewritten. 72.25.118.48 (talk) 17:09, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
