'Supercop' Bratton in Playboy

January 15, 2008 'Supercop' Bratton in Playboy A nod to laobserved for catching this one. Los Angeles Police Chief Wililam Bratton is touted as "the most influential crime fighter in recent history" in the February issue of Playboy, on sale starting today.

Joe Domanick, a long-time chronicler of the nation's second-largest police force in the nation, pens the piece with the headline "Supercop."

Bratton is rumored to be on the short list to head the Department of Homeland Security or the FBI in a Hillary Clinton administration. He’s so influential that his archnemesis, former New York City mayor and now Republican presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani—the man who fired him—twice made pilgrimages to L.A. last year in thinly veiled attempts to neutralize Bratton in the 2008 elections. laobserved.com

In 2004, I shadowed Bratton for a story of the 12-hour day in the life of the celebrity chief.

The day started at 7:45 a.m. at KTLA studios where Bratton was making a pitch for the half cent sales tax for more cops. Here's an excerpt from that piece, a look inside the chief's office at Parker Center:

His sixth-floor office in Parker Center is filled with police memorabilia: shiny New York City police badges displayed in boxes; baseball caps; British police-style bobby hats; toy police cars. Bratton picks up a 1954 book called ``Your Police,'' about the New York Police Department. He used to check the book out from the Boston Library as a kid. Now a tattered copy sits on a shelf next to his meeting table. It cemented his views about becoming a cop.

This is a guy that admits that race is the most important problem in policing and yet has "Special order 40" that restricts his officers from inquiring as to the immigration status of the people in Los Angeles. He wants to be considered for the head of Homeland Security or the FBI.

He’s not going to pose, I hope.

2 posted on 01/21/2008 3:35:54 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)

They have ARTICLES?????

3 posted on 01/21/2008 3:37:13 PM PST by willgolfforfood

Hollywood Bratton and guys like him are the problem.

Regards

4 posted on 01/21/2008 4:05:12 PM PST by ARE SOLE (Agents Ramos and Campean are in prison at this very moment.. (A "Concerned Citizen".)

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