L.A. loses its greatest police chief in generations this week. Goodbye to
Bill Bratton who should and has been honored for turning around one of the most notoriously and dangerous police outfits in the U.S. He will be sorely, sorely missed. His successor will be chosen from among three fine candidates. But hard to imagine any one of them will be able to fill his shoes (and I write this as someone who was a successful planitiff sometime ago in a class action suit against the LAPD for its illegal political spying).
One of those three candidates.
Jim McDonnell, was over at the Annenberg Journalism School the other night where I teach and,
Kevin Grant, one of our fine reporters for
Neon Tommy was there and able to file
this report.
If I could wave a magic wand, however, I would nominate someone else to be our next chief. He's far too modest a person to even dream of it and I know --because he's a friend-- of mine that he has a rather low view of politics and politicians of the sort any Chief has to be.
But LAPD
Lt.. Sunil Dutta has
this outstanding op-ed piece in the
Chri Sci Monitor critiquing the way our criminal justice system works... and doesn't. And it's NOT the critique you would expect from an active duty official of a major police department. Nice, work, Sunil.
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L.A. loses its greatest police chief in generations this week. Goodbye to Bill Bratton who should and has been honored for turning around one of the most notoriously and dangerous police outfits in the U.S. He will be sorely, sorely missed. His successor will be chosen from among three fine candidates. But hard to imagine any one of them will be able to fill his shoes (and I write this as someone who was a successful planitiff sometime ago in a class action suit against the LAPD for its illegal political spying).
One of those three candidates. Jim McDonnell, was over at the Annenberg Journalism School the other night where I teach and, Kevin Grant, one of our fine reporters for Neon Tommy was there and able to file this report.
If I could wave a magic wand, however, I would nominate someone else to be our next chief. He's far too modest a person to even dream of it and I know --because he's a friend-- of mine that he has a rather low view of politics and politicians of the sort any Chief has to be.
But LAPD Lt.. Sunil Dutta has this outstanding op-ed piece in the Chri Sci Monitor critiquing the way our criminal justice system works... and doesn't. And it's NOT the critique you would expect from an active duty official of a major police department. Nice, work, Sunil.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Marc you need to liven the ‘e’ at the end of piece as the link won’t load. Thanks.
October 29th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
This it, Marc?
http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1028/p09s02-coop.html
October 29th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
yup
October 29th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
You’ve written of Lt. Dutta before. He’s impressive. Thanks for the pointer. If I found the right piece, it’s worth a read. Heck. It’s worth a read even if it isn’t the piece you intended.
October 29th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
You’re right, Chief Bratton did a great deal of good. But he failed in a big way when he repeatedly refused to support reopening the police disciplinary process to the public. Then again, so did a lot of wimpy Democrats in Sacramento. We live in an imperfect world.
http://witnessla.com/city-government/2007/alan-mittelstaedt/the-secret-police/
October 29th, 2009 at 8:00 pm
I hope that this gives him some sense of vindication after the nonsense that scumbag Giuliani put him through.
October 29th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
^^^ Yes! Rudy’s entire political career is based on the turnaround in NYC crime that was entirely Bratton’s work. Oh, and that one thing that happened.
October 30th, 2009 at 4:12 am
Marc,
You think too highly of me. I am undeserving of such praise… Thanks for your kind words. Best, sunil
October 31st, 2009 at 1:59 pm
Sunil – you are worthy. Trust us.