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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of W.R. Needham
Sent: 03 October 2002 18:11
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Subject: [PEN-L:30866] Re: new top cop in L.A.This may not be of much use to you. But your message at least made it possible for me to correct the spelling to Bratton.The following is taken from a transcription of JR Sauls 1996 Hagey Lecture at the University of Waterloo. Power versus the Public Good: The Conundrum of the Individual and Society."The Chief of the New York police forces, William Bratten, early this year, February, is quoted, in the New York Times, as saying:
"I try to manage the police force as if it were a private industry. The criminals are our competition. [This is why fiction is so difficult. You can't make it up.] In the private sector you must keep a close eye on your competitor's activity if you wanted to get an advantage on him."
If you were in a healthy society he would have been laughed out of his job. It just went by. But this is the way he is thinking, this is the way people are thinking."Today, the Los Angeles Times reports that L.A.'s mayor picked a new police chief: William Bratton, former top cop at the NYPD.Does anyone in NYC or elsewhere know anything about his fellow?(He won't be _my_ police chief, but L.A. does set standards for Culver City, which at least on police matters doesn't live up to them.)------------------------
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