LA Police Chief William Bratton resigned yesterday. I can’t imagine anything worse for the future of L.A. He’s the first decent Chief the city’s had in at least twenty years, and I don’t look forward to living in a city with Bozo the Clown as Chief of Police.
Past LAPD Chiefs of Police: Daryl Gates – he was a good leader but never knew how to cope with racial strife between the public and his police officers. Willie Williams – he was regarded as an outsider and an ineffective leader, the city mayor’s hand puppet. Bernard Parks, the last chief before William Bratton, was an insider, a veteran LAPD officer, but he didn’t make a good Chief of Police. He fixated on enforcing minor rules and regulations that made it difficult for police officers to concentrate on doing their jobs.
This isn’t a good thing for LA at all.
