Exit Bratton

摘要

William Bratton, Los Angeles's chief of police, has been doing victory laps around the city as he prepares to step down on October 31st. With his broad, scarred face and thick Boston accent, he was already a celebrity cop when he came to Los Angeles in 2002, having previously led the police departments in Boston and New York. Seven years later, his reputation is even starrier.rnTo many Angelenos-black, brown and white-Mr Bratton is the quintessential good cop. When he arrived, the city's minorities were at war with its police, even though there had been two consecutive black police chiefs. The beating by white cops of Rodney King, a black man, in 1991, was still festering. The police were being audited under court order.