LAPD Pig Sculptures

LAPD Building Statues

LOS ANGELES CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY
The LAPD headquarters are housed in one of the most impressive buildings Downtown LA has to offer.  This beautiful piece of architecture is accompanied by a series of sculptures that run along Spring Street.

The highlight of this $450 million dollar building project is that ballsy artist Peter Shelton dared to put pig statues next to the LAPD headquarters.  These sculptures bear resemblance only to Hamm, the piggy bank in Toy Story.  This wasn’t a defiant act of graffiti, but a city-sanctioned series of pig sculptures adorning the worlds most famed pig dwelling.

Former Police Chief William J. Bratton described the sculptures, pictured above, as looking like “some kind of cow splat.”  Bratton said that it’s unclear what the statues are meant to depict, but guessed that the statues look like bison or hippos.  If the sculptures had been of doughnuts, would the chief be saying that they look like tires or cheerios?  The pig sculptures are missing corkscrew tails and signature pig snouts, but the resemblance is uncanny.

How this got past LAPD brass is beyond me.  The term “pig” has been used to refer to police for a long time and is perhaps the most derogatory term used to describe members of law enforcement. 

There’s a Dunkin Donuts right across the street from Philadelphia’s City Hall.  Every morning, the building is absolutely flooded with police.  I always found that funny.  But large, prominent, permanent pig statues on the grounds of the LAPD headquarters?  That’s just priceless.

This should not distract from the very serious instances of police violence and corruption that occur on a daily basis.  Police brutality is a serious problem, and with police left to "police" themselves, we have not seen nearly enough change in this category.  Though some officers have been brought to justice (Rodney King beating, Rampart scandal), police still brutalize citizens, kill people, plant evidence, falsify reports and lie under oath to secure convictions.

For a criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles, these jabs at the Los Angeles Police Department are amusing.  Feel free to share this article with friends and colleagues.

Nicholas M. Loncar, Esq. 
Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
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By Nicholas Loncar

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