Subject: Re: Oklahoma and Massachusetts
To keep their citizens safe isn't good enough?

That's exactly the point of this ordinance. To keep citizens safe.

If an undocumented alien is victimized by a criminal or witnesses a crime AND they know that the LAPD is going to check their immigration status when they report the crime, they're not going to report the crime and the criminal is going to go free.

So the LAPD will NOT check the immigration status of crime victims and witnesses. That encourages them to report the crime and cooperate with the investigation so that criminals can be held accountable for their actions.

--Peter