Wow. A fight is brewing in Los Angeles over a bill sponsered by Democratic Congressman Adam Schiff and Republican Congressman David Dreier over cop killers from Mexico. Mexico refuses to extradite cop killers and other accused of murder and some other crimes because the United States may execute the poor little cop killers or sentence them to prison for a long time.
The big case in Los Angeles is the murder of Deputy David March.
The bill would have originally stripped Los Angeles Distirct Attorney Steve Cooley and other locals from prosecuting killers of peace officers and given it to the federal government. The want the US to stop aiding Mexico until they turn them over. Dreier has voted against this approach.
Cooley and the Los Angeles Police Union were furious. Cooley went on the John and Ken radio show to denounce it. Schiff-Dreier made some changes that still didn’t satifsy Cooley and Company. Read it here.
Enter Steve Ipsen, the head of the Assocaition of Deputy District Attorneys, who appeared at the re-eletction kick-off of Dreier to counter Cooley’s attacks. Read it here.
Watch for this to heat up as we get closer to the June primaries.