Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (68 page)

“By the time
[
she
]
got back to the office, he had called”
: Ibid.

Bratton-Klieman engagement/February 1999
: Ibid., 332.

Central Park carousel
: Ibid., 333; “You
Can
Go Home Again,”
Gotham
, Summer 2010; “Partners in Crime.”

“round and round with you”
: Klieman and Knobler,
Fairy Tales Can Come True
, 333; “Public Lives, Round and Round Before a Proposal,”
NYT
, February 10, 1999; “Partners in Crime”; Rikki Klieman interview.

Klieman braced for bad news
: Rikki Klieman interview.

“I want to go after the job of LAPD chief”
: William Bratton interview; Rikki Klieman interview.

survived and recovered from a heart attack
: William Bratton interview.

“hip, chic, and glamorous”
: “They’ll Take Manhattan,” 156.

“Nine-eleven”
: Rikki Klieman interview.

“In your life as a police officer”
: “Bratton: The Making of a Police Visionary.”

sprawled across the dining room table
: Rikki Klieman interview.

fifty other candidates
: “Pick the Best Chief, Period,”
LAT
, July 29, 2002; “Partners in Crime.”

long-standing practice of thoroughly researching the police department
: Rikki Klieman interview.

“propaganda package”
: William Bratton interview.

John Timoney . . . the only other candidate he regarded as serious competition
: Ibid.

“showboating”
: Ibid.; Rikki Klieman interview.

Rick Caruso . . . “made it quite clear through intermediaries”
: Ibid.

William Bratton, October 2002, Los Angeles

Latino chief from the small city of Oxnard
: “NYPD’s Ex-Head Eyes Job at LAPD”; “Pick the Best Chief, Period.”

“nearly killed my candidacy”
: William Bratton interview.

New York Post
’s gossip column
, “Page 6”
: Rikki Klieman interview.

personal visit . . . to John Mack
: William Bratton interview.

Black L.A. had turned out in large numbers to support Hahn
: “L.A. Mayoral Election: ‘Voter Turnout Will Be Key,’ ”
Time
, June 4, 2001; “Black Voters Losing Clout but Still Crucial in L.A. Mayor’s Race,”
LAT
, April 9, 2013.

“as a personal enemy”
: Connie Rice interview.

“Bratton completely seduced Mack”
: Ibid.; “Saving Los Angeles,”
Playboy
, February 2008, 134.

“the mayor slid into my camp”
: William Bratton interview; “Saving Los Angeles,” 133.

one of Hahn’s top aides . . . New York governor Mario Cuomo, with Judge Milton Mollen
: Ibid.

“appreciating what I’d done there”
: Ibid.

meeting of the Rite Aid Corporation
: William Bratton interview.

the company’s corporate jet
: Ibid.

William Bratton, Patrick Gannon, and Gerald Chaleff, Fall 2002, Parker Center

Bratton hadn’t a clue what Gannon’s name was
: Patrick Gannon interview.

“Hey, Pete”
: Ibid.

Chaleff . . . “a card-carrying member of the ACLU”
: Ibid.

how “strong” Chaleff was
: William Bratton interview.

Bratton sent him a copy of his autobiography
: Ibid.

Chaleff . . . also knew Rikki Klieman
: Ibid.; Rikki Klieman interview.

A graduate of UCLA and Harvard Law School
: “Defense Attorney Chaleff to Lead Police Commission,”
LAT
, July 28, 1999.

Young Professionals for Kennedy
: Gerald Chaleff interview.

night of the California Democratic primary
: Ibid.

photo of Kennedy on his office wall
: Ibid.

selected to go to New York
: Ibid.

“Hillside Strangler”
: “Defense Attorney Chaleff to Lead Police Commission.”

office on the sixth floor of Parker Center
: Connie Rice interview.

John Miller . . . Barbara Walters’s partner . . .
20/20
: William Bratton interview.

Miller also possessed exceptionally active eyes and ears
: Ibid.

liked
going to crime scenes
: Ibid.; Rikki Klieman interview.

Mike Berkow . . . Orange County
: William Bratton interview.

knew Berkow from back when he was a cop in Rochester, New York
: Ibid.

flew into L.A. on their own dimes
: Ibid.

Wasserman gave Bratton a copy of . . .
Policing a Free Society
: Ibid.

liaison to the gay community
: Ibid.

John Linder . . . “cultural diagnostic”
: Ibid.

Bratton considered Linder “a genius”
: Ibid.

“how dysfunctional it was”
: Ibid.

Bratton also flew in George Kelling
: Ibid.

NYPD chief of department Louis Anemone
: “The Enforcer: Chief Bratton, 2004,”
Los Angeles
, March 2004.

Most . . . were eventually paid by the Los Angeles Police Foundation
: William Bratton interview.

a strapping six-foot-three police officer named Manny Gonzalez
: Ibid.; Rikki Klieman interview.

no police equipment of any kind
: William Bratton interview.

“Hey, Manny”
: Ibid.

It said a lot to Bratton
: Ibid.

“I want a full police package”
: Ibid.

“What Manny and the chief’s office staff were trying to do”
: Ibid.

“you had to let them know who was in control”
: Ibid.

William Bratton and Charlie Beck, Fall 2002, Los Angeles Police Academy, Elysian Park

about 60 of whom were captains
: Charlie Beck interview.

“He really chewed ass”
: Ibid.

“I want you to get results”
: Ibid.

Gannon . . . San Pedro
: Patrick Gannon interview.

Gannon’s family had a history
: Ibid.

“I didn’t know what to expect”
: Ibid.

“Bratton wanted to take the shackles off”
: Ibid.

“we’re not just a suppression force”
: Ibid.

“Conversely, if things are going bad”
: Ibid.

submit a résumé
: Charlie Beck interview; William Bratton interview.

a “face with a biography in a book”
: William Bratton interview.

“who was good and who was bad”
: Ibid.

applying for their own jobs again
: Charlie Beck interview; Patrick Gannon interview.

“Hey, we understand force in the LAPD”
: Charlie Beck interview.

“if you want to keep crows away”
: Ibid.

“What’s with this guy?”
: Ibid.

“Well, read his book
[Turnaround]
, man”
: Ibid.

“We have nine thousand officers”
: William Bratton interview.

“How does Bratton get credit for community policing?”
: Patrick Gannon interview.

“As crime declined”
: Ibid.

“Bratton didn’t give us a blueprint”
: Ibid.

Charlie Beck, 2002, LAPD Central Division and Skid Row

20,000 inmates
: “New Leader for Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Must Overcome Scandals to Rebuild Public Trust,”
LADN
, March 21, 2014.

165,000 that flowed
: “How California Failed Kevin Evans,”
Los Angeles Times Magazine
, August 26, 2001, story by author.

2,300 mentally ill inmates
: Ibid.

largest such mental-health facility in the nation
: “What Is the Role of Jails in Treating the Mentally Ill?” NPR, September 15, 2013; “Inside the Nation’s Largest Mental Institution,” NPR, August 13, 2008; “How California Failed Kevin Evans.”

largest skid row in the western United States
: “Reinventing Skid Row,”
Politico,
March 5, 2014; “On Patrol with Skid Row’s ‘Angel Cop.’ ” CNN, January 3, 2015.

About 40 percent of L.A. County’s homeless were mentally ill
: “How California Failed Kevin Evans.”

“There are just no facilities for the mentally ill homeless”
: Ibid.

By 2000 an estimated ninety-one thousand homeless
: “Homeless Need Help, Not ACLU,”
LAT
, October 30, 2005; “Bratton’s Plans for Homeless Debated,”
LAT
, October 31, 2005; “Committee Formed to Fight Homelessness,”
LADN
, December 21, 2005.

eighteen thousand beds in shelters
: “Problem of Homelessness in Los Angeles and Its Environs Draws Renewed Calls for Attention,”
NYT
, January 15, 2006.

eighty-three single-room-occupancy hotels
: “Bratton’s Plans for Homeless Debated”; “Single Room Occupancy Hotels (SRO)/Interim Control Ordinance (ICO),” Office of the City Clerk, City of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Housing Department, November 15, 2007.

“a different standard of behavior”
: Charlie Beck interview.

“It’s not so much what the police let you do”
: Ibid.

“How long you been in charge here?”
: Ibid.

“Okay”
: Ibid.

counting the tents and packing-box bedrooms
: Ibid.

giving them a choice
: Ibid.

At the rescue missions, Beck knew he’d have captive audiences
: Ibid.

a series of talks to about four hundred of the homeless
: Ibid.

“a slim grasp on reality”
: Ibid.