Los Angeles Adult Entertainment: LAPD trains Marines, preps them for Taliban
… He was right on the money with that,” he said. “And it’s even more so with the Taliban, with their drug dealing and things.”
The Corps believes it can learn valuable lessons from the LAPD, which has made inroads into communities after highly publicized abuses, from the videotaped beating of Rodney King to corruption in an anti-gang unit.
“Their role is to win the hearts and minds of the community, and that’s what they did,” said Staff Sgt. Brendan Flynn, who also works as a Los Angeles police officer and will be deployed to help train Afghan police.
The weeklong exercise — unbeknownst to the public — involved Marines dressed in jeans and T-shirts observing drugs busts, witnessing prostitution arrests and even following a murder case. It was the largest group of Marines to embed with the city’s officers.
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