The LA City Council’s worst idea yet

LA’s police chief had better move over.

Three far-leftists on the city council, along with the city controller, are making a run for his job.

These radicals — Eunisses Hernandez, Hugo Soto-Martinez, Nithya Raman and Kenneth Mejia — think they should run the LAPD.

And they’ve hatched a plan to take it over, The California Post reported this week.

Two words: Utter. Lunacy. 

Mayor Karen Bass should condemn this insanity.

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The majority of the 15-member council should defeat it.

And if the council lets it advance, voters should repudiate this insult to Los Angeles.

What serious person wants abolish-the-police socialists in charge of LA’s finest?

The anti-police faction “aims to change how many officers are hired, how resources are deployed, what tactics are allowed, and how the department’s multibillion-dollar budget is spent,” The Post reported.

Talk about micromanagement. And by people with no discernible expertise in law enforcement, no less.

If the scheme succeeds, here’s what LA residents can expect:

Defunded police.

Fewer officers.

More crime.

Longer response times.

More riots, violence, and general chaos.

Fewer consequences for criminals.

And of course: much-degraded public safety.

And: If this plot succeeds, how exactly would the understaffed LAPD attract and retain top talent?

The department struggles with recruitment as it is, thanks to City Hall’s animus toward police.

If the socialists seize the department? Expect worse — much worse.

As former LA County Sheriff and current candidate for sheriff Alex Villanueva told The California Post Opinion team: “The applicant pool is averse to working under leadership perceived to be compromised.”

So … who will be left to keep Angelenos safe?

Mayor Karen Bass has no answers.

She retreated this week from her 2022 campaign pledge to restore LAPD staffing to 9,500 officers, up from 9,027 at the time.

Today, the number sits at 8,677 — an embarrassing 25-year low.

“My goal changed, unfortunately,” Bass said. “I do hope that one day we get to the expansion, but we are not there now.”

The city needs better than hope and “not there now.” It needs a plan from the mayor — as she runs for re-election this year — to refuse the council radicals and rebuild the LAPD.

And the usurpers’ claim that expanding their power would protect minorities from police overreach? Bilge and nonsense. 

As Heather Mac Donald of the Manhattan Institute wrote in The Post this week, the data disprove claims of bias, and, in fact, the LAPD “sets a national standard of professionalism and restraint.”

The radicals’ power play is ludicrous … and dangerous.

Public safety is the most fundamental responsibility of any local government. 

The LA council crazies not only don’t take it seriously; they are actively working to degrade it.

Think about that.

This ploy to play police chief is, perhaps, the council’s worst idea yet.