Breaking news: 100 years ago today, cats at the Ballard substation of the Seattle (Washington) Police Department went nuts.
This strikes a nerve with me since yesterday we watched two movies featuring some Los Angeles Police Department "cats" who went nuts: "Changeling" and "L.A. Confidential."
"Changeling" is based on the true story of LAPD shenanigans in 1928. A woman reports her son is missing and five months later a youngster from DeKalb, Illinois, is railroaded to L.A. Which is to say he took the train. But the efforts by the boy and the LAPD to convince the mother, Christine Collins, that this kid was her son were a cruel form of railroading. This branched out to include psychiatric railroading.
Fast-forward to 1953 for the workings of the LAPD as presented in "L.A. Confidential." There's no getting around it: Power tends to corrupt.
This strikes a nerve with me since yesterday we watched two movies featuring some Los Angeles Police Department "cats" who went nuts: "Changeling" and "L.A. Confidential."
"Changeling" is based on the true story of LAPD shenanigans in 1928. A woman reports her son is missing and five months later a youngster from DeKalb, Illinois, is railroaded to L.A. Which is to say he took the train. But the efforts by the boy and the LAPD to convince the mother, Christine Collins, that this kid was her son were a cruel form of railroading. This branched out to include psychiatric railroading.
Fast-forward to 1953 for the workings of the LAPD as presented in "L.A. Confidential." There's no getting around it: Power tends to corrupt.