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Doing The LAPD Hollywood Shuffle

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Here is a recent Tweet from the Captain of the Hollywood Division of the LA PD.

If the background of the shot of those two LAPD rockers looks familiar, it is because it is the Pavilion at scientology’s Celebrity Centre.

Corey Palka is promoting an event held at scientology Celebrity Centre.

This while there is a pending investigation of rape charges against Danny Masterson, a big-timer at the Celebrity Centre, which is also home of the Chaplain, MAA, C/S, auditors and President’s Office staff that dealt with the fallout of the reported incidents.

This is the same Hollywood Division that hosted the “kiosk” to promote scientology “social betterment groups”…

And Captain Palka and his Hollywood team have been getting checks from their buddies at Celebrity Centre for years:

Amazing how brazen they are.

Reminds me of how Lee Baca used to be when he was LA County Sheriff. Before he ended up in prison for obstructing justice.

Here is a more in-depth article from the Daily Beast last year Leah Remini Calls Bullshit on the LAPD and Danny Masterson

 

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  1. LAPD has been in Scientology’s pocket for years. When my long gone ex husband beat me to the point I was taken to the hospital via ambulance, the police came to the hospital about the same time the swarm of people came to make sure I kept my mouth shut. I was checked out without treatment and my ex was never prosecuted. I was not able to speak for myself as I was unconscious at the time, but the police “respected my religious rights” and looked the other way. I got in ethics trouble for causing a flap. My ex got a commendation for making it go right.

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    • This is insane, and an absolute outrage.

      If Mike and Leah need any topics for more Aftermath episodes, your story should certainly be considered.

      Leave no stone unturned, everyone. Expose the putrid underbelly of this sick scientology organization.

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  2. Hello my name is Athena and I heard that ex-Scientologists Mike Rinder and Leah Remini are making a “reality show” about children who grew up in Scientology and how bad Scientology is. This seems completely biased and weird to me.

    I was born in 1982 with both parents Scientologists in Los Angeles, CA. I went to a normal school and took some classes on communication and “Learning How to Learn” at my Church (fabulous to help people actually understand how to study). My parents are both artists and always believed in me and allowed me to make my own decisions on whether or not Scientology was for me. I grew up with great friends and memories of my Church. As a teen, I took courses on my own volition that helped me tremendously. I recently went Clear myself and it has been a incredible experience!

    I am a successful entrepreneur, married for 12 years and have two beautiful boys 6 & 9 years old and we live a very happy and productive life as Scientologists. There are thousands of people who have grown up with Scientology who would love to be interviewed–why not go into a real Church of Scientology and interview real people there?

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  4. I live in Orange County (next to Los Angeles). The LAPD has long been known for being a corrupt organization, not to mention its rampant bigotry. So, I’d say that Scientology and the LAPD have a lot in common. I’m all for cutting off the head of the serpent, which in this case is Scientology’s tax-exempt status that funds their donations and the Hollywood LAPD Captain, since the Hollywood division is probably the most corrupt of them all.

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  5. Somewhere between 93 to 95, while I was a Case Supervisor at CCInt, the Presidents Office (specifically, Karen Hollander and Susan Watson) we’re in a heavy push to safeguard LAPD and the Sherrif Dept. at the time, they met with resistance, until they finally found a potential way in. A close friend of LAPD (I believe he was also a police officer) had recently experienced a horrible loss: his wife shot herself in front of him and their two year old child. They immediately jumped on this and offered free sessions for this person. The offer was accepted and Eunice Henley-Smith delivered many (free) auditing sessions on this person. This person ended up having rave things to say about the sessions and it opened up better communication between the Presidents Office at CC and LAPD. I wish I could remember the name of this person, but it escapes me. That same year is when the Christmas Stories started at CC, which has always been a fundraiser for Police Activities League.

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    • That is the problem Sunny. I too whitnesed a suicide beside me. But did my church of then 74-2010 help me? 37 years of 100%. And my then x was now married to the VM in charge for all of WUS.
      No body cares but me. No one. I got myself into this and I’ll pull myself out.
      I didn’t have enough money to be on the morning Body Battle planning. BBP.
      So I’m left in the gutter.
      Its a different world you’ve left behind. Thank you for talking S … Really just thank you ?
      No one wants to leave a friend there. It’s inhumaine. Like leaving a newborn ~ well we just don’t do it.

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  7. Haven’t they seen, “LA Confidential?”
    This sort of corruption is beyond civilized words, it sickens the soul of the city, or any community. When those responsible for law & order line their pockets with catering to criminal enterprise the social fabric begins to collapse into a classed society & dictatorship by force, and if bad enough converts to anarchy. No confidence in the police is a serious matter. The US police, their associations & legal hierarchy have a responsibility to the whole world to lead the way in social equality.
    Scientology, their stolen money & ‘legally’ coerced protections presents more of a threat than can be easily comprehended. imo, it is obvious the LA police or parts of them are protecting Scientology. If the police can’t tell they are being lied to, what sort of police are they?

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  11. Really LAPD? So much for “To protect and serve”. Aren’t you funded by taxpayer dollars? This needs to be exposed on a mass scale and prosecuted. So disappointed that the nasty corruption and greed knows no bounds. I’m thoroughly disgusted right now.

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  13. At this point, filing a complaint with the LA FBI office would be useful. The FBI website states specifically:

    https://www.fbi.gov/about/faqs/does-the-fbi-investigate-graft-and-corruption-in-local-government-and-in-state-and-local-police-departments

    “Does the FBI investigate graft and corruption in local government and in state and local police departments?

    “Yes. The FBI uses applicable federal laws, including the Hobbs Act, to investigate violations by public officials in federal, state, and local governments. A public official is any person elected, appointed, employed, or otherwise having a duty to maintain honest and faithful public service. Most violations occur when the official solicits, accepts, receives, or agrees to receive something of value in return for influence in the performance of an official act. The categories of public corruption investigated by the FBI include legislative, judicial, regulatory, contractual, and law enforcement.”

    Here is the wikipedia-article on the Hobbs-Act:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobbs_Act

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  14. Before we did the CallMe billboards we did a few other things to try to reach our kids. One was the Missing Poster we did for our son Mike at Celebrity Center. The other was to go to the local LAPD branch to ask for a welfare check.

    When we were at the police station filing the report we asked about possibly checking with California Protective Services and if they might be better to contact for a welfare report. This was the only time we brought this idea up, and we never did pursue it. Amazingly, when Scientology put up their hate page on us at their STAND (STAAD) League site this item was included in their text.

    We only mentioned this idea once and it was at the LAPD office, and we NEVER filed a report or even contacted California Adult Protective Services at all. Someone in the LAPD had to have either been in contact with Scientology, or Scientology has someone planted in the LAPD. No other explanation.

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  15. Hey, it all goes back to “PR area control”. It’s all in Hubbard policy. Very little to pay police as rentacops and create allies. Doesn’t matter that the police look the other way as the criminal organization continues to commit crimes. Over the centuries these organizations prey on underpaid public servants.

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  16. Scientology’s corruption of the LAPD is complete. Scientology and Masterson are inseparable, forever joined at the hip.
    The LAPD KNOWS that there is an abundance of evidence that Masterson raped multiple women. LADA Jackie Lacey knows. LAPD Investigators KNOW that Scientology itself has obstructed justice and suborned perjury in the Masterson case. They KNOW Scientology behaves like the Mafia or a transnational drug/human trafficking cartel. Scientology has bought this protection.
    This stinks to high hell. (“Forget it Jake…it’s Chinatown.”)

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    • Danny Masterson would be far better off to admit to the rape charges to the Wog Judge and take the rap from the Wog Justice System. It will be much more humane and kind than Scientology.

      Danny Masterson now will PAY and PAY and PAY for his crimes, but not to the right party who are the women who were raped. Danny Masterson will pay Scientology with all of his money and with his life.

      Believe me – they will get him back for this out PR Flap. This will be a scab the MAA and EO’s will pick at for eternity. They will make it bleed, wait until it is infected and then probe it deep until it explodes.

      I almost feel sorry for him but then I think of the women he raped.

      It is over for Danny Masterson.

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  17. As bad as the militarization of American police is, it is just as bad when a particular subset like the LAPD Hollywood division plays favorites with an immensely rich organization. Could it really be for a mere twenty grand a year… or is there more to the story? Someone needs to look into the lifestyle, the assets, and the income of that division, starting from the top down. Someone needs to monetize the value of cops using the CC for personal or LAPD purposes, and make it be reported as income.

    But I don’t know how you keep individual officers from taking the best-paying outside gig they can get, assuming it is the best paying gig available. It does create a conflict of interest when someone has to decide whether or not to side with their off-hours employer versus a member of the public’s complaints.

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    • This doesn’t strike me as individual officers. When the scandal involving the Catholic Church erupted in Boston over 10 years ago, the police DID become involved. And many of those officers had earned extra money at church events. Not to mention that more than of few of them were probably practicing Catholics. This, however, reeks of department-wide corruption.

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  18. Has Internal Affairs, or whatever they call it in LA, been advised these “officers” are consorting with an organization that is regularly involved in obstructing justice? If not Internal Affairs, then someone in the Governor’s Office?

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    • In case you have lost any confidence in the LAPD’s ability to clean up its act, you might consider filing a complaint with the “Office of the Inspector General of the LAPD”. The post is held by a civilian:

      http://www.lapdonline.org/police_commission/content_basic_view/1076

      “[…] The receipt and review of citizen complaints of misconduct and oversight of the Department’s internal disciplinary system are also important functions of the Board.

      The OIG is available to assist community and police department members with the filing of complaints of police misconduct or otherwise provide information about the investigative process. […]”

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      • Not sure who may be in their pocket now, but in the 90’s and early 2000’s scientology hired lawyer Gerry Chaleff (and Gave him a lot of work) for the express reason that he was on the LA Police Commission. He was sought out and retained for this alone.

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        • Maybe one needs to pursue all different venues at the same time : filing complaints with the FBI, state attorney’s office, the OIG, with the local US senators and congress men & women. At the same time picketing the LAPD HQ, then the LA times might pick up the issue.

          Unfortunately, I do not live in the LA area. I would flood and torture them individually with information requests and complaints.

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  19. Telling is how the Church is always accusing “critics” and “ex’s” of speaking out for money. Now again we see the truth which is the church is constantly buying off as many lawyers/PIs/cops/officials as it can. Talk about Big Pharma Whores…here we have Big Scio-Whores.

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  20. $cientology is a science of blackmail and bribery coupled with extortion, fraud and manipulation.

    Thanks for the truth Mike.

    Always refreshing to see what little covert methods the Cherch of $ciendollatry is using to Keep $cientology $camming, Extorting, Blackmailing, Bribing and Fraudulating.

    A new word I just made up – Fraudulating. I hope Mark Foster will use it. 😉

    Fraudulating. A verb. New English. Fraudulating means when a non profit organization that calls itself a religion and hides behind the religious cloak, whilst sitting on billions of dollars it illegally obtained from its clubbed seal members, uses criminal methods to obtain money and free labor, whilst committing criminal acts any for-profit organizations would be shut down and their officials imprisoned for.

    I’ll use it in a sentence:

    $cientology has been fraudulating for 65 years.

    Lurkers and OSA – read all of the SP Basic Books, Watch all SP Documentaries and Leah and Mike’s show on A&E and work it out in clay.

    Write up your wins!

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  21. Does the LAPD just not get how this makes them look? Whether they’re actually corrupt or just extremely gullible, the problem is that the appearance they’re giving off with their apparent partnership with Scientology harms the public’s confidence that they can be impartial enforcers of the law.

    Has the new LAPD Chief Michel Moore, who took over for the incompetent Charlie Beck a few months ago, made any sort of a statement or implemented any noticeable changes relating to Scientology’s perceived manipulation of his department?

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  22. Good to know the LAPD are music fans. Maybe I should send them one of mine to add to their playlist. Do they take Requests?
    https://soundcloud.com/moxie-magee/westillhere-for-chrissie-1

    “We Still Here (for Chrissie)”
    The master’s son he dragged us down
    Donkey hell to spin us numb and “disappeared”
    Stalk the streets of Hollywood
    Cruise the station, you’re insured

    Hey Mister, you be gone
    We still here. But we still here. We still here. We still here.

    The master’s son crawled up a bridge
    Turned to slime and bribed another “volunteer”
    Kick the cat to hide the stain
    Claw a message, smear our names

    Hey Mister, you be long gone
    We still here. Yeah we still here.

    The master’s son got hammered on
    The Holy Grill, confessed to one “can’t shed a tear”
    Fried the pages, hide the shameless
    Lied and spied and tried to fade us
    Then Mister, you must be clear!

    We still here. But we still here. Yeah we still here.
    We still here. That’s right. Take a good look.
    We still here. We ain’t goin’ nowhere. We still here.
    We still here. Ride ’em cowboy. Yep, still here.

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  23. Does anyone in the LAPD actually keep TRACK of what this $20,000 donated money is being USED for? Is the LAPD going to show a receipts for the purchase of sports equipment, sports uniforms, camping equipment, etc to SHOW the LAPD has spent that money on LAPD YOUTH itself?

    I have heard of certain “agencies” donation a few hundred or a few thousand (say $5000) to a Police Dept sponsored program, but NEVER in my life have I ever seen or heard of an “agency/church” donating $20,000…..to ANY Police Department Sponsored Program……NEVER.

    Gee, just think what $20,000 handed over to the LAPD could do. Shelly Miscavige has still NOT been seen in PUBLIC for many years…one MIGHT think that when an “agency/church” hands over that much money, the LAPD would be on their hands and knees with magnifying glasses actually LOOKING for Shelly & SHOWING HER stating she “is OK but does not want to be bothered”…..

    ZZZZ, umm, (yawn) I just woke up….dreamed it all again…..

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  25. Words like disgusting or appalling don’t go low enough in describing this. Is the Attorney General’s Office in the State of California aware of this or are they as corrupt as city officials.

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  26. Amazing how much corruption am mere $20,000 can buy, but I am betting there’s a lot more being “donated” than that. It’s always a follow the money thing be that cash or favors or ego stroking, depending just how pathetically lacking in morals the recipient is, and in this case it sure is the people who betray the badge they don’t deserve to wear.

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    • I have another theory about all this too. It’s a person of higher rank who pulls others into this, convinces them it’s safe and not a big deal. That way they cover their ass if things blow up and someone with some guts actually looks into what’s going on, someone who can bring charges and take away their pensions, take away their jobs. In fact, that would even be someone like DM who could hold it over their heads. That’s what the cult does to control people isn’t it?

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  27. Corruption flourishing and prospering in
    and around The cult.
    Sometimes you get the idea that only 3rd
    world uneducated and uncivilized countries
    have that type of runaway criminality but
    here it is right in front of our eyes. Barf.

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  28. Also to be thrown into the mix is the fact that the CoS IS the de facto secondary employer of Hollywood Division rank and file officers. Paying them LARGE hourly wages to work for the church off-duty. About 10 years ago a LAPD officer told me he made >$20,000 from the CoS the prior year.

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  29. L. Ron Hubbard, “The Responsibility of Leaders” (Simon Bolivar) policy, one of the Hubbard “power condition” policy advices says:

    “…bribe the police….”

    So, they just do it in a fashion to other groups who similarly donate money to the police.

    Celebrity Center Scientology seems the perfect conglomeration of L. Ron Hubbard’s ideas for influencing the world. Celebrities. Their pavilion stage.

    All in keeping with L. Ron Hubbard’s style.

    One of the events that I think yearly Celebrity Centre Scientology also holds, is one of the parties held for the “Writers/Illustrators of the Future” awards for budding writers and illustrators of science fiction and fantasy.

    There is just an amazing new book, “Astounding” book by Alec Nevala-Lee. that gives background to the influence of Hubbard’s colleagues during the “Golden Age of Science Fiction.”

    Hubbard turned out different from the other large personalities in the “Golden Age of Science Fiction”, this Nevala-Lee book ought be required reading for all future “Writers of the Future/Illustrators of the Future” Hubbard contest gala events.

    The world needs all the books on Hubbard’s history it can get.

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    • Thanks for the info on the book “Astounding”. Another excellent book is “The Bare Faced Messiah” by Russell Miller. I’ve never been a Scientologist but found the book fasicinating.

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  30. Whoring for cash is nothing new. It is, after all, the oldest profession. As Mark Twain once wrote, “You tell me where a man gets his corn pone and I’ll tell you what his ‘pinions is.”

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  31. This is criminal. The FBI should be investigating the LAPD for how deeply Scientology has infiltrated the LAPD. And I’m willing to bet that the reason the LADA and Jackie Lacey has not indicted Masterson yet is because they have infiltrated her office as well or she is so afraid of them (she obviously cannot trust her own police force) that she’s putting it off. This despite the fact that Masterson’s victims continue to be fair gamed and the LAPD does nothing!!! They even have video of the guy stalking one of the victims! This is criminal and it has to be stopped. The Governor of California should step in.

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