An Indian newspaper cartoon likening Victoria Police to the Ku Klux Klan has been dismissed as ridiculous, unhelpful and ‘‘just plain stupid’’ by the state’s Police Association.

The Plain Dealer, founded in 1842, said “it was not a difficult decision” to cut the office-culture cartoon from its pages. And it said all Advance Media newsrooms — which include SiLive.com ...

Reader Rep Ted Diadiun discusses two controversial images: A cartoon that was not printed in The Plain Dealer and a photograph that appeared in its pages.