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New Officer In Charge of
LAPD's blog
From the LAPD
April 23, 2008
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dear LAPD Bloggers,
I would like to introduce myself to you. I am Lieutenant Rick Banks, and as of April 2008, I am the new Lieutenant in charge of the blog. That is to say, I manage the blog by approving the postings and reading all of your comments and evaluating which ones will be published. Once published, your comment is added to the discussion board for everyone to read.
The LAPD created the blog to be able to disseminate our news and information while managing how it is presented to the public, the cyber and global community. In its few years of existence, the blog has proven to be a successful and valuable tool, which comes with a great amount of responsibility. This blog provides people the ability to exchange ideas and opinions on numerous Department topics and events. The blog allows you to have a good amount of influence and more with complete anonymity.
Unfortunately, people take advantage of being anonymous. People find it very easy to make accusatory remarks and point fingers at others without having to provide complete, factual and accurate background information or context and that is irresponsible. On occasion, I have been unable to publish several comments because they included explicit, inappropriate or slanderous language and were personal attacks. I will not post a comment that will help perpetuate a rumor or an unfounded accusation. The Department welcomes differences of opinion, and those opinions will be published as long as they are well within the guidelines of the disclaimer.
You can illustrate how strongly you feel about a topic without the use of profanities or abbreviations of profanity. This will make it easier for me to publish your opinions, maximizing the impact of your comment and inspiring others to share their thoughts.
Please take a quick minute to read our disclaimer. I look forward to hearing from you soon, and encourage you to continue submitting your comments. Thank you for your time.
Lieutenant Rick Banks
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