I've always wondered what LA would be like if the entire police enforcement community took a 72 hour holiday. Any bets?
It's allready happened. During the Rodney King riots Gates ordered the cops to not respond to most areas out of concern for his officers safety. Mayor Bradley was inciting the populace to riot so Gates said go ahead. They burned huge swaths of their neighborhoods then started branching out into other areas. The police finally went in to halt the BS when the gangbangers started shooting at firemen who were trying to put fires out. Kind of what they do don't you know. It appeared the gangbangers were borrowing a page from the 1850's and the San Francisco gang the Sydney Ducks who set fires all over the city and looted after the people had run away.
I was there and had a grandstand view of the whole proceedings.