To the editor: I just lately retired from the Los Angeles Police Division after 26 years. I labored below Chiefs Willie Williams, Bernard Parks, William Bratton, Charlie Beck and Michel Moore. For my part, Bratton was the simplest chief. (“Mayor Bass’ caution shows in her pick 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 question that McDonnell, who like Bratton is from Boston, helped information him by 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 modifications, each good and now unhealthy, over time. I feel McDonnell is the best choose Bass might have made. I’m no fan of hers, however I applaud her for choosing McDonnell. Her resolution reveals a degree of integrity on the subject of 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, certainly one of our candidates was the Youngsters’s Clinic of Lengthy Seashore. It proposed a program for early detection and therapeutic intervention in instances of persistent stress within the lives of youngsters.
Analysis reveals 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 legal exercise, poor bodily and emotional well being and poverty. It additionally has proven the big constructive position remedy can play, for the reason that younger mind could be very malleable.
McDonnell, then the chief of the Lengthy Seashore 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 challenge did, in truth, obtain our grant that yr and has had a tremendously constructive impression.
Bass has picked a real gem to steer 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 Instances’ editorial board calls Bass’ selection of McDonnell to steer 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 shortage of any point out of Alex Villanueva, who gained that sheriff’s race primarily because of the help of the L.A. County Democratic Social gathering — an endorsement occasion leaders rapidly regretted. If not for his or her political miscalculation, McDonnell would probably nonetheless be sheriff.
The town is fortunate to now have him as the subsequent LAPD chief.
Kathy Barreto, Culver Metropolis