LA put politics first — and sparked its worst

The Los Angeles Police Department’s after-action report on the Palisades Fire reveals a stunning lack of preparation — and confirms that officers were unavailable because they had been diverted to protect President Joe Biden.

The 90-page report pulls no punches in its criticism of the LAPD’s failures during the fire — unlike the LA Fire Department’s version, which glossed over key failures and has been slammed by whistleblowers.

The LAPD was generally slow to respond to the Jan. 7 blaze — as was the LAFD.

The police department received its first emergency call about the fire at 10:23 am, the report notes, but aside from one officer on the scene, it took the rest of the department nearly an hour to mobilize.

The “long drive to the far westside of the division prevented the units from