Thankfully, I can't imagine the police chief of a major city writing something like this today.
It's always nice when someone is polite while asserting that you are sick in the head.
http://laist.com/2012/04/11/lapd_improving_transgender_relat... ^Considering 'walking while trans' basically used to be a crime in LA until very recently... Latino transgendered women especially. The LAPD would arrest them, just for being a transgendered minority, and subject them to 'strip searches' to 'prove' their gender. That's right, there had to be a set policy to not just arrest women for being transgendered ethnic minorities, and sexually assault and humiliate them. Many of them would be picked up just because they where walking to the grocery store, as if it's unfathomable that transgendered women who are ethnic minorities could be anything other then prostitutes. Lets not act like the LAPD is any friend to queer people, or ever has been. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/walking%20while%20trans So, I'm sad to say... it seems things with the LAPD just went down hill from this letter. Hopefully they are getting better, but only because FINALLY someone Queer got put into a position of power. Imagine the minority groups that aren't lucky enough to get a personal advocate.
I enjoy the "Letters of Note" website very much. Thx tng.I would much rather celebrate "GAY CONVERSION WEEK" which I will gladly sponsor when the medical practitioners in this country find a way to convert gays to heterosexuals.
Letters like this remind us that while bigots are still out there, we've come a long way in a short time. One reason I love the Toronto gay pride parade is the presence of so many Canadian policing organizations proudly marching in the parade along with members of every religious denomination.
Sure thing lil, I like the site too. I was introduced to it by a kleinbl00 post a while back. On the site they mention that they are working on a "lettersofnote" book. I'd be interested in owning that collection. It would make a great coffee table book.