Police Chief Bratton Says LA Weekly's McDonald is 'Smoking a Little Weed'
There is something very unsettling about a member of the LAPD accusing a reporter of doing drugs for disagreeing with them. That would go for any police force, but the LAPD – in a post-Rampart world – throwing around the ‘you’re a dope head’ dismissal for challenging his murky crime stats, is really…scary. And incredibly stupid.
But yesterday on Patt Morrison’s show on KPCC, when Morrison asked about the oft cited (by Bratton) ‘statistic’ “LA is the safest its been since 1956”, Police Chief Bill Bratton refuted the LA Weekly’s findings.
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