Thread by @NOlympicsLA

If you want to understand how deeply incestuous and fundamentally illegitimate the LA political machine is, look no further than today's Community Safety Partnership vote at the LAPC today.

This morning at the LA Police Commission meeting, commissioners will plan to vote yes to accept $500k in funding for the LAPD’s CSP. The money will come from the LAPD’s private non-profit, the LA Police Foundation, funded by multi-national corporations and elite interests.

The Garcetti-appointed Police Commission has 5 members, and needs 3 votes for a quorum.

Steve Soboroff, ringleader of the LAPC, is a board member of the Weingart Foundation, one of the principal funders behind the Community Safety Partnership (a non-profit which donates to LAPF and The Mayor's Fund).

This is the textbook definition of a conflict of interest.

Shane Goldsmith, the VP of the Police Commission, is the CEO of the Liberty Hill Foundation. In 2018, Liberty Hill accepted about $300k from the Weingart Foundation.

Of course this is another colossal conflict of interest.

It's also another example of how non-profits exist to launder and obfuscate the relationships between power.

Soboroff and Goldsmith must recuse themselves.

Commissioner Sandra Figueroa-Villa has been out on sick leave for the past several months, and presumably will be today. (She does have a CSP $$ conflict of her own!)

That leaves only two 'legitimate' votes, which doesn't satisfy a quorum.

The LAPC meets today at 9:30am. Call in.

Agenda: ens.lacity.org/lapd/agendas/l…

Join: lapd.zoom.us/s/289225944

Community policing is policing.

We don't need police. We need everything but.

#WeRejectCSP #DefundThePolice #LAPCFails