“We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie ‘Purge,’ you know, instead of 24 hours to

“We can’t guarantee your safety. It is really, really out of control. I said it to people before, it’s like that movie ‘Purge,’ you know, instead of 24 hours to commit your crime, these people have 365 days days to commit whatever they want,” McBride said. If true, that's worse than I remember LA. That said I've never imagined for a moment that law enforcement can guarantee my safety. At the best of times they might make a best effort try to help. In my youth, I was going in that career direction and LAPD specifically told me "We have positions opening every day" which is what turned me off that career path. I knew they didn't have the budget for that which meant they had a high churn rate. I figured if I was going to start in a war zone it may as well be a real one so I joined the military instead. This was long ago. It sounds like things have gotten much worse. Anyone from HN still in LA?