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Bill Bratton

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2011

    Prisoners, Parolees Headed to L.A. Under State Prison Downsizing: LAPD Chief Beck Says 150 Cops Will be Cut From Streets to Handle Them

    Some of the worst news about L.A.'s response to the transfer of thousands of state prisoners and parolees to county jails and local police oversight is that the LAPD says it will need to take 150 officers off the streets to deal with them. In a geographically vast city with less than 10,000 officer ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2011

    In Wake Of Criticism, Dodgers Hire Bill Bratton To Review Stadium Security

    Bill Bratton​Following last week's brutal parking lot beating, the Dodgers have hired former LAPD Chief William Bratton to advise them on security.That's a sharp reversal from Saturday, when Frank McCourt said he was satisfied that Dodger Stadium was already as safe as it could be.Since retiring f ... More >>

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    LAPD Audit: Bratton's fiscal mess

    New chief Charlie Beck releases a report showing broad mismanagement

  • News

    December 3, 2009

    Going to Pot: L.A. Weekly’s Journalistic Standards?

    New chief Charlie Beck releases a report showing broad mismanagement

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2009

    Friends Of Crash Victim Allege LAPD Cover-Up

    Friends of a Brentwood woman who was killed in a collision with a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser last month held a vigil this week and called for an investigation into whether the patrol car was speeding to an emergency call without its lights and sirens on -- a practice that was banned by th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2009

    The Student Has Become The Teacher: Beck Establishes Distance From Bratton

    In his third town hall meeting in as many nights, Los Angeles Police Department chief designee Charlie Beck established some distance between himself and his mentor, former Chief Bill Bratton.Charlie Beck is establishing some distance between himself and mentor Bill Bratton.​Beck, responding to a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 30, 2009

    LAPD Crime Digest Still No-Show on Web Site

    We don't always agree with the Los Angeles Times editorial page, but on Wednesday they got one thing right: The new LAPD chief needs to be more transparent.LAPD Chief Bill Bratton​The Times wrote that outgoing LAPD chief Bill Bratton "has been less impressive in the area of transparency and accoun ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 20, 2009

    LAPPL President Paul Weber: Next Chief Needs To Be 'People Person'

    Los Angeles Daily News reporter Rick Orlov wrote yesterday that the Los Angeles Police Commission is now searching "in earnest" for LAPD chief Bill Bratton's replacement.LAPD Chief Bill Bratton​"There are at least six candidates who will be interviewed on Wednesday and Thursday - and they are said ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2009

    Another Bratton Endorsement Bites the Dust

    Outgoing Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton once told the Weekly that he would never personally run for office . . . but it still didn't keep L.A.'s Top Cop from backing political candidates when critics said he should stay out of the endorsement business.Ted SoquiLAPD Chief Bill Bratt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Gadfly Extraordinaire John Walsh Finally Turns to Blogging

    Longtime Hollywood resident John Walsh may not be as famous as such bloggers as Perez Hilton or Matt Drudge, but among gadflies, community activists and City Hall insiders in Los Angeles, he's something of a legend.Kevin ScanlonHollywood gadflies (l-r) John Walsh, Chris Shabel, and Miki Jackson​Fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Bratton Successor: Insider LAPD Brass Who Want to Replace Him

    Nothing against the interesting list the Los Angeles Times published today, of the Los Angeles Police Department's top brass who want to replace the departing Bill Bratton. But the chances that City Hall would somehow have a permanent new chief in place the day Bratton leaves for New York, which is ... More >>

  • News

    August 20, 2009

    Earl Krugel, Irv Rubin: Silenced?

    Nothing against the interesting list the Los Angeles Times published today, of the Los Angeles Police Department's top brass who want to replace the departing Bill Bratton. But the chances that City Hall would somehow have a permanent new chief in place the day Bratton leaves for New York, which is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2009

    L.A. Times Shills for Villaraigosa's 'Summer Night Lights'

    Reading the L.A. Times this morning, we stumbled upon Hector Tobar's breathless column about Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's supposed anti-gang program called "Summer Night Lights."L.A. Times columnist Hector Tobar​Tobar visits Ramon Garcia Park in Boyle Heights, one of 16 parks in Los Angeles where ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 17, 2009

    S.F. Chief Seeks LAPD Help

    Former Los Angeles assistant police chief George Gascón has just taken over as San Francisco's top cop and already is making waves -- by bringing in two LAPD homicide detectives to help solve a case that the SFPD allegedly botched. At the heart of the matter, according to the San Francisco Chronicl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 13, 2009

    Tom Hayden: Bill Bratton Conflict of Interest in Cherkasky Deal?

    Tom Hayden has been one of the gutsiest politicians in California, whether you like him or not. I've always admired him for that. It's not surprising to see that Hayden alone, so far among local civic leaders, is asking an obvious question also raised by my piece in L.A. Weekly today: isn't Bill Bra ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Lily Burk's Funeral in Los Angeles, a Calm Before the Storm

    For a lot of people, the vibrantly sunny Los Angeles weekend was a time to focus on the life and death of 17-year-old Lily Burk, who was honored at a ceremony at Barnsdall Art Park. It's not often you see 500 people gathered to note the passing of a teenager who has yet to make her mark on the worl ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    LAPD Chief Bill Bratton: A Hero or a Palin?

    Ever since Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bill Bratton announced his resignation last week, it's as if the guy has become some kind of victorious, military hero who fought a horrible, bloody mission in some god-forsaken land...and now he gets to take a well-deserved breather and enjoy the spoil ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 10, 2009

    Villaraigosa Gets Cheech Marin Hitched

    Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has long been known to run with the glamour crowd in Los Angeles, and this past Sunday was no different.According to news reports, Villaraigosa officiated the marriage of comedian Cheech Marin and classical pianist Natasha Rubin yesterday. The wedding was reportedly a suns ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    LAPD's Bill Bratton Will Join Altegrity Inc.

    Chief Bill Bratton is expected to announce today that he plans to resign from the Los Angeles Police Department to take over as the top gun of a private security firm. According to radio reports, he has accepted a job at Altegrity Inc., which is based in Falls Church, Virginia. The company is owned ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 5, 2009

    Who Will Replace Bill Bratton as LAPD Chief?

    Who will succeed LAPD Chief Bill Bratton, who is leaving to work for his former boss Michael Cherkasky at Kroll Associates (but in this incarnation, these two old friends will now run Altegrity)?Bratton announced his plan to leave following months of rumors -- rumors the chief fed by traveling almos ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    May Day Cops Dodge Bullet No LAPD officers involved in the 2007 May Day melee in MacArthur Park will be fired, although Chief Bill Bratton had called for four terminations. L.A. TimesCut the Comedy Birmingham High School administrators will be disciplined for allowing Sacha Baron Cohen to use the sc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2009

    Chief Bratton: L.A. Weekly Story "Voodoo Reporting"

    "I'm not a politician," Police Chief Bill Bratton told a radio audience yesterday. "I work in a political environment, which shows how sane I am." During Wednesday's Patt Morrison show on KPCC, the LAPD Chief went after a recent L.A. Weekly cover story that questioned his department's use of crime s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2009

    Bratton and Villaraigosa Seek More Cops During Fiscal Crisis

    Yesterday, at the Los Angeles Police Department Metropolitan Dispatch Center in downtown, Chief Bill Bratton and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa were buddying up again, with City Attorney candidate and Councilman Jack Weiss along for the ride. LAPD Chief Bill BrattonInitially described in press releases ... More >>

  • News

    April 30, 2009

    Bratton: L.A. Is as Safe as 1956

    Except the chief is manipulating numbers and acting like a politician

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2009

    Tape May Hold Clue to Identifying Grim Sleeper Serial Killer

    UPDATE: Listen to the 911 call here. Shortly after midnight, January 10, 1987, a Los Angeles Police Department dispatcher received a call from a man who said he was phoning from a pay booth. The mystery caller told the female operator that he wanted to report a murder. He claimed to have seen a man ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 19, 2009

    Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

    Helmet Rule Ignored? A police officers' union is suing the LAPD and its chief, Bill Bratton, accusing both of violating the department's own safety policies. The case is part of the spreading controversy over orders that kept cops from donning riot helmets before a January 10 protest in Westwood. L. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 5, 2009

    House Party: Notorious Drew Street Home Demolished

    Police Chief Bill Bratton, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and City Councilman Eric Garcetti, along with dozens of police officers, undercover agents and city workers, gathered in Glassell Park Wednesday to celebrate the demolition of a notorious drug house once owned and operated by Avenues gangster ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2009

    Drew Street Drug House Demolished

    Creepily, some neighbors miss the gang’s terror, a Neighborhood Watch of sorts

  • Blogs

    August 28, 2008

    Feuding Cops: Bratton vs. Parks

    There was never any doubt that Los Angeles Police Chief Bill Bratton and City Council Member Bernard Parks were not the best of buds. Parks was ousted as Police Chief and Bratton was brought in, after all. However, who knew that the feuding between the two chiefs was more than a few digs during pres ... More >>

  • News

    August 28, 2008

    Grim Sleeper Returns: He's Murdering Angelenos, as Cops Hunt his DNA

    The most elusive serial killer west of the Mississippi took a 13-year break. Now he's back

  • News

    February 14, 2008

    Valley Shootout: SWAT Hero's Final Minutes

    Why Randal Simmons stepped in harm's way

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Voter Guide: the Pros and Cons of the Initiatives, February 5 Ballot

    Making sense of the issues

  • News

    April 26, 2007

    Where Are the Adults?

    City Hall can’t cope as L.A. neighborhoods get hit by taggers gone wild

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    The Real Thing

    Earl Paysinger

  • News

    March 9, 2006

    Coming of Age in the Mouth of Madness

    The kids of Skid Row

  • Columns

    February 9, 2006

    Tripping Quincy Jones . . . and Other Scenes From EG 2006

    The kids of Skid Row

  • News

    July 21, 2005

    Who Could Have Saved Baby Suzie?

    Inside the SWAT team’s fatal decision to confront a gun-wielding father

  • News

    April 7, 2005

    Badge of Anger

    Jan Perry goes after LAPD Officer Torres

  • News

    February 10, 2005

    Hahn Solo

    Jimmy doesn’t like to be called dull. In fact, he defends his style with, uh, passion

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Making It Personal

    What’s really driving these L.A. mayoral candidates?

  • News

    October 21, 2004

    Loco Control

    It’s hard not to feel like a sucker on these budget measures

  • News

    July 8, 2004

    People vs. the Police — Take Five

    The Stanley Miller beating prompts more promises of citizen involvement. Haven’t we been here before?

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    D’oh! Goofiest L.A. Political Gaffes

    The Stanley Miller beating prompts more promises of citizen involvement. Haven’t we been here before?

  • News

    January 30, 2003

    Life at Ground Zero

    Chief Bratton takes aim at gang violence

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    View From Parker Center

    A one-on-one with Police Chief Bill Bratton

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    Bill, We Hardly Know You

    Cut Chief Bratton some slack for a good start

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    Take Heed, Chief

    Bill Bratton needs to spend time with council members from high-crime districts

  • News

    October 17, 2002

    One More Question

    Bill Bratton needs to spend time with council members from high-crime districts

  • News

    October 10, 2002

    The Otani Affair

    Two top picks for Bernie Parks’ replacement book the wrong place to stay

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