Politically Correct Policing:  After a January 24 article in the Los Angeles Times, announcing that while blacks make up roughly 9% of the city's population nearly half of the police vehicle stops involved black drivers, and a later directive by Mayor Garcetti ordering police to reduce the number of vehicle stops, LAPD officials warn that crime and violence will increase. Cindy Chang of the LA Times reports that while the earlier article on vehicle stops showed that a disproportionate number of black drivers were stopped, there was "no proof of racial profiling."  "But with a progressive mayor and the city's most progressive police chief ever, the LAPD is under unprecedented pressure to pull back from tactics like vehicle stops and data policing that carry implications of racial bias."  The problem is that in South Los Angeles, home to the highest crime districts in the city, most of the residents are black or Latino.  For several years the department's elite Metro squad had used data-based deployment and stop and frisk policing to keep crime rates down in these districts.  But with a coalition of community groups demanding that Metro officers pull out of South LA and the Mayor's directive to back off, the risk of increased crime is very real.  As one police captain noted, "We're trying to stop drive-by shootings.... If we're not here to keep the peace, we're going to have bloodshed."