The Big Reasons Dec 17 Exists
From a Newsweek article (go to the head of the class if you can figure out what's wrong with the cop's statement):
Kilcoyne is unimpressed by Pelisek's concern for the well-being of the prostitutes, runaways, and drug users who still hang out on the South L.A. streets—not because they are undeserving of police protection, but because he considers them impervious to warnings. If they were paying attention to their safety, he reasons, they wouldn't be on the street in the first place. Van Zandt agrees. The police issue warnings, he says, "and the prostitutes will say, 'Gee, I understand, but this is my living and I can only stay in so long.' " "If [the suspect] was crawling into kitchen windows in the middle of the night, it would be different," Kilcoyne says. "But the people that are being victimized don't read the L.A. Times, they don't watch the news. So what are we accomplishing here? Are we gonna help the case or are we gonna hurt the case and chase our guy to another city?"
Reason #1: The whole article is how a journalist's nosiness compelled the LAPD to start investiagating.
Reason #2: The cop's view that those on the street get what they deserve because he obviously thinks they have somewhere else to go. They're just insisting on hanging on the street to make his job harder and to provide warm bodies for a serial killer.
