May 30, 2007 - The Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Police Protective League today issued the following statement regarding the LAPD presentation to the Police Commission yesterday and the City Council today in which the Department agreed that improved training and command and control is necessary in wake of the incident in MacArthur Park on May 1st.
"One of the lessons of the May Day incident is that we have sacrificed training in order to have enough officers available everyday to protect the city. This is a real cost of being understaffed. We need the flexibility to be able to keep our communities safe and at the same time to be able to rotate officers into training modules. While recruitment will help us down the road, we also need to be realistic about the need for overtime now to maintain constant staffing and crowd control, and to allow us to provide adequate training for all of our officers."
The LAPPL recommends that the LAPD adopt the 12 recommendations released yesterday. A complete copy of the recommendations can be found on our website, www.LAPD.com."
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