Bratton retiring as LA’s police chief

After seven years as Police Chief of the city of Los Angeles, William Bratton is retiring. Under Bratton, Los Angeles has seen declining crime rates since 2003, and during his tenure he pushed hard to reform the LAPD, increase departmental transparency, increase minority recruitment, and institute community policing.

Chief Bratton was a believer in the “Broken Windows” theory of policing, much like Milwaukee Police Chief Ed Flynn, which brings me to the possibility of Ed Flynn leaving the Milwaukee Police Department. Flynn’s career has been marked by upward movement, and it wouldn’t surprise me at all to see his name on a short list of possible replacements for Bratton in Los Angeles. Flynn has done a good job during his tenure as Milwaukee’s Police Chief, and that will no doubt merit strong consideration if he allows himself to become a candidate for LA’s Police Chief position. Whether Chief Flynn would leave Milwaukee remains to be seen, but I certainly wouldn’t be surprised if he decided to make a move to a much larger police department like the LAPD.

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