Letters to the Editor: The LAPD's troubling unease with reporters asking questions (via latimesopinion )
I previously worked as a crime reporter in Los Angeles, and for a time I staffed a 24-hour bureau at L.A. Police Department headquarters. Covering crime and mayhem is difficult work, and so is the job of policing and investigating those crimes.
Knocking on doors to talk to victims or officials who are integral to the story — as Times reporters did with the LAPD officers involved in the botched 2021 detonation of seized illegal fireworks in South L.A. — is an essential part of the news-gathering process.Police union representatives would never advocate for a detective to be constrained from interviewing people essential to a criminal investigation.
People knock on my door almost every day, selling something, asking for donations, asking for my vote, evangelizing or, as happened a couple of days ago, reminding me I needed to move my car for street-sweeping.
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