I'm glad you made this. I kept hearing this claim continuously. Now that I get to see a complete structured case made in support of that argument, I see clearly how absolutely unfounded, ridiculous, moronic and idle it is.
A somewhat-less-pedantic-than-it-seems “well actually”:
The LAPD does not respond to 911 calls in Compton.
First off, the LAPD only has jurisdiction in the *City* of Los Angeles, and Compton is a separate city also located in Los Angeles *County*.
Second off, the city of Compton rather famously disbanded its municipal police department and in its place contracted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD):
There isn’t really any significance to this in the context of your essay. You could have just as easily referred to the LAPD responding to 911 calls in Watts (which, unlike neighboring Compton, is part of the City of Los Angeles).
Though even then if you’re already making the mistake of pairing Compton and the LAPD, you might as well do some cursory research to make sure the analogy makes sense. I just did a quick web search, and for all its problems the LAPD apparently had a median emergency response time of 5.2 minutes in 2022. (Non-emergency response times were significantly longer.)
In all fairness I didn’t know this response time before searching it, and these particulars are more relevant to local US politics than to Israel. (See: Mike Davis’ 1990 book “City of Quartz”.) But if you’re going to use an analogy, it helps to make sure the analogy actually works.
For instance, apparently back in 2013 (during its municipal bankruptcy) the city of Detroit had a median police emergency response time of over 50 minutes (though this has since improved to 12 minutes). This response time was most likely due to the bankruptcy, so the better comparison might be places where the police have been subject to ongoing “austerity”, such as the UK, and with a little more digging you could probably find a specific yet pithy example more current to 2023.
The comparison and contrast between deliberate security lapses and austerity might be the better story here than merely referencing a Reagan-era gangsta-rap album or appealing to a Reagan-era stereotype of crime in Los Angeles. (Though you could probably make an historical-materialist comparison via “City of Quartz” if you wanted to do that instead.)
Some folks think 9/11 was also Israel’s 9/11/.
I'm glad you made this. I kept hearing this claim continuously. Now that I get to see a complete structured case made in support of that argument, I see clearly how absolutely unfounded, ridiculous, moronic and idle it is.
A somewhat-less-pedantic-than-it-seems “well actually”:
The LAPD does not respond to 911 calls in Compton.
First off, the LAPD only has jurisdiction in the *City* of Los Angeles, and Compton is a separate city also located in Los Angeles *County*.
Second off, the city of Compton rather famously disbanded its municipal police department and in its place contracted the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Police_Department
There isn’t really any significance to this in the context of your essay. You could have just as easily referred to the LAPD responding to 911 calls in Watts (which, unlike neighboring Compton, is part of the City of Los Angeles).
Though even then if you’re already making the mistake of pairing Compton and the LAPD, you might as well do some cursory research to make sure the analogy makes sense. I just did a quick web search, and for all its problems the LAPD apparently had a median emergency response time of 5.2 minutes in 2022. (Non-emergency response times were significantly longer.)
In all fairness I didn’t know this response time before searching it, and these particulars are more relevant to local US politics than to Israel. (See: Mike Davis’ 1990 book “City of Quartz”.) But if you’re going to use an analogy, it helps to make sure the analogy actually works.
For instance, apparently back in 2013 (during its municipal bankruptcy) the city of Detroit had a median police emergency response time of over 50 minutes (though this has since improved to 12 minutes). This response time was most likely due to the bankruptcy, so the better comparison might be places where the police have been subject to ongoing “austerity”, such as the UK, and with a little more digging you could probably find a specific yet pithy example more current to 2023.
The comparison and contrast between deliberate security lapses and austerity might be the better story here than merely referencing a Reagan-era gangsta-rap album or appealing to a Reagan-era stereotype of crime in Los Angeles. (Though you could probably make an historical-materialist comparison via “City of Quartz” if you wanted to do that instead.)