Rate My Cop, a website dedicated to, uh, rating police officers, is back. A huge chunk of the LBPD is listed, but few have ratings—right now the site is about as trustworthy and uninformed as any anonymous forum on the internet. But it’s at least a vague step toward accountability.

Just now Jay writes with the below and intimations of further bullshit to reveal later. Happy he got outta there fast, tho.
DAVE REEVES was released from jail last night (Monday) and is okay. He is out on some sort of “work release” program and has to check in with the sheriffs tomorrow. He has [...]

Alert to all remaining Americans: damn strong Arthur columnist, ranking Little Joy bartender and ferociously righteous good man Dave Reeves has just gone in for 23 days of jail in L.A. for a stunningly bullshit charge of “not reporting a traffic accident” in which he was the victimized party. Jay @ Arthur reports:

Law enforcement’s newest crime-busting tool? A tattoo machine
It’s not local, but this recent piece from CNN.com still makes us shake our heads in wonder. Apparently, a county sheriff in Augusta, Georgia opened a tattoo parlor expressly to sting local oafs–and then just sat back and watched the felonies roll in.

The Long Beach Police Department faces a budget crisis that threatens to reduce critical services, and Fifth District Councilwoman Gerrie Shipske chooses this moment to propose spending more money on DARE, the bogus anti-drug education program aimed at school kids. Shipske proposed Tuesday to fund the program with a tax on all the things [...]