We need more cops like Bernard Robins. Shame on the LAPD

To the editor: When, based on your article, Bernard Robins regarded into the mirror and realized that his Los Angeles Police Division uniform was not a very good match, he was not addressing the fashion, coloration or material. It was the proper metaphor for a state of affairs that didn’t must exist.

The tragedy right here is that the person who actually deserves to put on that uniform is not a member of the LAPD, whereas those who handcuffed him regardless of being instructed he was a cop are nonetheless in that uniform.

Whilst Robins tried to get across the extra aggressive ways of some officers by involving himself with a unit that reached out to group teams, he was ridiculed by a few of his fellow officers. That in itself tells one other story, and never a very good one.

Homer Alba, Glendale

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To the editor: Your entire story of a Black officer being profiled, disbelieved and handcuffed by white officers is frustrating. However there may be an obscene irony on the core of the story he relates, of his automotive’s tinted home windows being the possible trigger for cuffing him and looking out his automotive.

I comply with a person on Twitter recognized for holding a watchful eye on the LAPD — William Gude, recognized by the deal with @FilmThePoliceLA. He has filmed officers rolling out of police station tons of their private vehicles, many with the identical darkly tinted home windows that they routinely use as an excuse to cease drivers.

Mickey Fielding, Baldwin Hills