As a former Reserve Police Officer in San Bernardino, CA, I can pretty well testify to what the officer wrote of. * I majored in Police Science under LAPD back in the early sixties. I vividly remember the LAPD's #1 expert on the laws of arrest, search and seizure, telling us how to break up a legal party. (He was a licensed attorney as well as a lieutenant at LAPD in the legal section.) ... It got so bad out there that the city finally told its officers to stay out of conflicts ... because so many rotten tickets were being written by CHP and officers lying on the stand. Officer M. Young, Ret.Westminster, CA *  I read with interest some of the articles distributed by you regarding the LA Police Rampart scandal. In particular, the "technicalities" mentioned by Mr. Lindner in his article about the dysfunctional system have been ignored by police everywhere as a matter of practice for many years. As a former Orange County, California, police officer in the early '70's it was encouraged and, therefore common, practice to write police reports reflecting an arrest as it should have been made according to the textbook "technicalities" and not as it actually occurred. ....  [Snipped].