“It is important to me that we have a department that is seen as valuing fairness.” — LAPD Chief Charlie Beck

Note the careful language here. In case the translation isn’t clear… I will provide one.

“It is important that people who might intervene in our tyranny believe that there is no cause to intervene, when in fact there is every cause; therefore we must create the appearance that we value fairness due to the gaping and actual lack of it in our common and daily activities.”