Discussion on Law Enforcement Transparency

A creativity question here. What can your department do to do more

to warn us, to warn the business community,

that outside of our LA

borders,

coming in from Inglewood, coming in from I don't know, Valley,

I don't know, you

can warn us so that we can warn our folks?

In the spirit of

your loyalty to the city of Los Angeles.

So you're asking me to warn you about an enforcement action being taken by another

agency before it happens?

Yeah.

Yeah, we, we can't do that.

Why not?

That would be obstruction of justice.

You may wanna talk to the city attorney about that.

Where's the city attorney? Aren't they here? I see her officers.

Where's she?

We'll hear from the city attorney after we hear from LAPD.

We can re- we can revisit it then.

Okay. Yeah, 'cause I mean, I...

They're en route. We know they're coming.

We know they're coming to bring disruption.

There's no way that we can know?

N- I can't... I don't know how to even respond to that.

Wasn't she just here? Who took her?

Where did she go?

We'll, we'll come back. She had to attend to some,

to some other business, but we

can come back. We'll give you the opportunity to ask her

that question directly.

Well, I need to know.

Yeah, we don't do that. We, we, w- we're not gonna, we're not gonna broadcast

for... Like, the FBI is looking for a terrorist suspect, say,

right?

Are we gonna tell, you know, "Hey, the FBI's coming looking for you"?

Yeah, but see, th- there's a difference between-

Yeah, there's a difference, but I'm using that-

-someone's coming because they're gonna, you know, go get-

I'm using that as an example, but no, we're not allowed to do that.

That would be completely inappropriate and illegal.