To the editor: I just lately retired from the Los Angeles Police Division after 26 years. I labored underneath Chiefs Willie Williams, Bernard Parks, William Bratton, Charlie Beck and Michel Moore. In my view, Bratton was the best chief. (“Mayor Bass’ warning exhibits in her decide of Jim McDonnell as LAPD chief,” editorial, Oct. 4)
Jim McDonnell, Mayor Karen Bass’ choice for LAPD chief, was Bratton’s right-hand man more often than not. I’ve little doubt that McDonnell, who like Bratton is from Boston, helped information him by way of his transition to the LAPD, which has a a lot totally different tradition than the New York Police Division that Bratton had led.
I’ve been a resident of downtown Los Angeles since 2006 and have seen the adjustments, each good and now dangerous, over time. I feel McDonnell is the best decide Bass may have made. I’m no fan of hers, however I applaud her for choosing McDonnell. Her choice exhibits a degree of integrity with regards to concern for the protection of Angelenos.
Chris Patterson, Los Angeles
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To the editor: When Everychild Basis was deciding on its annual $1-million grantee in 2013, considered one of our candidates was the Youngsters’s Clinic of Lengthy Seaside. It proposed a program for early detection and therapeutic intervention in circumstances of persistent stress within the lives of youngsters.
Analysis exhibits how the continuing results of abuse, starvation and housing instability can impede mind growth and in the end contribute to poor life outcomes, together with low educational efficiency, elevated prison exercise, poor bodily and emotional well being and poverty. It additionally has proven the big optimistic position remedy can play, for the reason that younger mind may be very malleable.
McDonnell, then the chief of the Lengthy Seaside Police Division, participated within the presentation as a result of he clearly understood how the implementation of such a program would make his metropolis safer and extra livable. The venture did, in actual fact, obtain our grant that yr and has had a tremendously optimistic impression.
Bass has picked a real gem to guide the LAPD.
Jacqueline Jacobs Caster, Pacific Palisades
The author is Everychild Basis’s founder and president and a former L.A. County probation commissioner.
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To the editor: The Occasions’ editorial board calls Bass’ selection of McDonnell to guide the LAPD “curious” and says his tenure as L.A. County sheriff was “rocky.” I discover this description equally curious, provided that the paper endorsed McDonnell in his bid for reelection as sheriff in 2018.
Additionally curious was the dearth of any point out of Alex Villanueva, who received that sheriff’s race primarily because of the help of the L.A. County Democratic Celebration — an endorsement get together leaders rapidly regretted. If not for his or her political miscalculation, McDonnell would doubtless nonetheless be sheriff.
Town is fortunate to now have him as the subsequent LAPD chief.
Kathy Barreto, Culver Metropolis
