A-Hole of the Decade: LAPD’s Charlie Beck
February 23, 2012 Leave a comment
Charles C. W. Cooke — National Review
The Los Angeles Times reports that the city’s police chief is backing a special driver’s license for illegal [aliens]:
Wading into a politically charged debate, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck [shown at left with equally despicable Tony Villar, aka ‘MEChA Boy’ Villaraigosa] said California should issue driver’s licenses to illegal [aliens]. — The chief becomes one of the most prominent local figures to support the idea and his stance is certain to further inflame critics who are already angry at Beck’s efforts to liberalize the rules on how his officers impound the cars of unlicensed drivers. — “My personal belief is that they should be able to” have licenses, Beck said in response to a question during a meeting with Times’ reporters and editorial writers. “The reality is that all the things that we’ve done – ‘we’ being the state of California – over the last 14, 16 years have not reduced the problem one iota, haven’t reduced [illegal] aliens driving without licenses. So we have to look at what we’re doing. When something doesn’t work over and over and over again, my view is that you should reexamine it to see if there is another way that makes more sense.”