I don't believe Walter is BSing us.
I, too, am a senior member with few posts. However, I try not to dismiss good information as BS. I think we can all learn a lot from Walter. I believe he is who he says he is because he has an insider's viewpoint. Not many people could give so much information with details that are right unless he truly was LE.
I also hope that Walter has a long and fruitful relationship with this board and its members. Let's not ruin a good thing by attacking someone who is doing a service to this forum.
Good luck, Walter and keep up the good work. Remain cautious and double-check your posts to keep from giving IA any info on your identity.
LAPD Vice and additional info
Each LAPD division has its own vice unit. Based upon the stats of the division, they may concentrate on prostitution, gambling, alcohol beverage control enforcement, municipal code crap (smoking in bars, restaurants), arresting pirate DVD vendors, citing street vendors, stings on liquor stores selling booze/cigarettes to minors and sometimes small time street drugs. Basically, they are a huge waste of tax payer money.
The vice units are slaves to the area Captain's whim. The Captain has to answer to a board pertaining to comp stat. Comp stat is some crap Billy Bratton brought from New York PD. It's another waste of tax payer's money where some high paid egg-head officer on light duty puts together stats from the division (traffic, shootings, part I/II crimes, gangs, etc). The captain must explain why crime is up or down in his division.
The easiest way to bump numbers up in the captain's favor is to use the vice unit. Vice wear's many hats and it's a local undercover team in the captain's pocket. He therefore uses them to pad statistics along with patrol and general detectives.
Lately, the captains are really pushing the craigslist stings and also busting girls on craigslist...the latter being more common. They do the stings to see if they can ensnare sex registrants because that's a huge added bonus for the captain's promotional sleeve.
I hate management, the captain, lieutenants and sergeants. They are the biggest waste of human flotsam---high on themselves and low in self-esteem. A lot of these buffoons were like anyone else; they used to be blue-collar dudes---plumbers, grocers, delivery men, UPS drivers, gas station attendants, former military grunts. They forget their roots and turn into assholes.
Here's some info if you're an electronic scanning buff.
Vice will use several frequencies to operate so if you are equipped with a mobile digital scanner, you may want to tune into "Citywide", "Emergency Trigger simplex", LAPD Access (analog) simplex, and pertinent Area Tactical channels in simplex. You can find the frequencies on police radio scanner sites.
If it's organized crime/vice, they use Nextel radios so you won't be able to intercept them. But they don't really work cases involving street level mongering.
T M RTFF and then learn some respect...
Seriously, I hate all LE!
Mostly because YOU guys take an oath, which apparently YOU took real seriously, to enforce all the victimless crime legislation which as passed by our brilliant civic leaders and as enforced by your idiotic friends in blue (who lie to themselves that they are better than the trash that they are "cleaning up" everyday on the streets) only serves to upset, disrupt, and destroy the already tragic lives that they touch day in and day out.
Honestly, I would probably prefer it if YOU were a fake pig just playing w/us all but that is probably not the case.
So please keep on giving us all of your secrets and do keep on breaking all the laws YOU were sworn to uphold.
I know we all appreciate this birds-eye view into the other side of the storm!
And YOU know Walter YOU do not have to enforce all the bad laws.
Why not look the other way when the laws as written are worse than the ills they were meant to cure.