[Greenbud]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/us/04bratton.html

Dicks keep it close to the vest...keep it on the QT.

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles named Charlie Beck, a savvy insider and a 32-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department to replace William Bratton as the next police chief. The choice was announced at a press conference Wednesday morning.

Mr. Beck, who has one of the highest public profiles in the department because of his supervision of cases including the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death , the murder investigation of Phil Spector, and a serial murder case earlier this year, was selected from among three finalists who included Mr. Bratton’s chief of staff and a commander of operations in the San Fernando Valley.

Mr. Beck, 56, whose father worked as a homicide detective at the department,

will take control of a department emerging from a federal consent decree and an extensive overhaul under Mr. Bratton. Mr. Beck was part of those changes, charged with turning around the department’s Rampart Division, the locus of several damaging police corruption scandals.

Crime rates reached historic lows and the department’s national reputation improved significantly during Mr. Bratton’s tenure.

But the department faces severe budget reductions; it cut $60 million this year, even as Mayor Villaraigosa struggled to keep a promise to grow the force to 10,000 officers. Mr. Beck will also have to address the burgeoning problem of more than 800 medical marijuana dispensaries that have established storefronts throughout the city in the absence of strong municipal regulations. Mr. Beck has indicated that he will wait for the city council to draft a new ordinance governing the shops before cracking down on the dispensaries.

Mr. Beck will also inherit other perennial law-enforcement problems in Los Angeles, including chronic gang violence and a possible rise in the number of parolees on the city’s streets as the state reduces its prison population to meet its own financial goals.

[BrattonBasher]

I am cautiously optimistic that Beck will be at least be resistant to the Trutanich/Cooley dog and pony style of press manipulation. Bratton was also guilty of making a show out of himself. Beck seems down to earth.

[VooDoo Chile]

Originally Posted by Greenbud

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/us/04bratton.html

Dicks keep it close to the vest...keep it on the QT.

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles named Charlie Beck, a savvy insider and a 32-year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department to replace William Bratton as the next police chief. The choice was announced at a press conference Wednesday morning.

Mr. Beck, who has one of the highest public profiles in the department because of his supervision of cases including the investigation of Michael Jackson’s death , the murder investigation of Phil Spector, and a serial murder case earlier this year, was selected from among three finalists who included Mr. Bratton’s chief of staff and a commander of operations in the San Fernando Valley.

Mr. Beck, 56, whose father worked as a homicide detective at the department,

will take control of a department emerging from a federal consent decree and an extensive overhaul under Mr. Bratton. Mr. Beck was part of those changes, charged with turning around the department’s Rampart Division, the locus of several damaging police corruption scandals.

Crime rates reached historic lows and the department’s national reputation improved significantly during Mr. Bratton’s tenure.

But the department faces severe budget reductions; it cut $60 million this year, even as Mayor Villaraigosa struggled to keep a promise to grow the force to 10,000 officers. Mr. Beck will also have to address the burgeoning problem of more than 800 medical marijuana dispensaries that have established storefronts throughout the city in the absence of strong municipal regulations. Mr. Beck has indicated that he will wait for the city council to draft a new ordinance governing the shops before cracking down on the dispensaries.

Mr. Beck will also inherit other perennial law-enforcement problems in Los Angeles, including chronic gang violence and a possible rise in the number of parolees on the city’s streets as the state reduces its prison population to meet its own financial goals.

Hey, he's willing to wait! That counts for something!

[ps-med]

Sounds better than the current smash and grab scare tactics. Maybe LA will finally put something workable together that benefits the patients and also protects the County from an overrun of collectives. Just think it has been over 13 years since 215 and only in the past 6 months have any real ordinances been drafted (at least in Southern California). Times are most definately changing.

[ShiningSkull]

Originally Posted by VooDoo Chile

Hey, he's willing to wait! That counts for something!

McCarthy, the Narcotics division commander, said exactly the same thing about waiting for regulations. Then he busted NNCC the next week.

[VooDoo Chile]

Originally Posted by ShiningSkull

McCarthy, the Narcotics division commander, said exactly the same thing about waiting for regulations. Then he busted NNCC the next week.

Um, uh, well, nevermind then.