Former NYC Top Cop Bill Bratton on LA Paparazzi

2008_07_bratton.jpgWilliam Bratton, the former NYPD Commissioner who introduced CompStat and helped oversee a dramatic reduction in crime (and then was dismissed when Rudy Giuliani got jealous), is now dealing a different kind of scourge: The paparazzi in Los Angeles. An LA City Council member has proposed restrictions on paparazzi and even convened a regional "paparazzi task force," with testimony from celebrities. Bratton, who has headed the LAPD since 2002, feels it's a "total waste of time," saying, "If you notice, since Brittany started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody, thank god; and, evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don't seem to have much of an issue."

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Lindsey Lohan is gay? Are there pictures?

The whole thing sounds like a story out of The Onion.

That was pretty funny. He's right as well. Unless LA solved their gang problem and we forgot to tell us, they should spend more time on that and less time on paparazzi task forces.

Bratton's jealous that the paparazzi aren't following HIM.

Gotta feel for them, though, those celebrities have it rough - bunch of decadent queers and cokeheads. One of these days a real rain will come down and wash all the scum off these streets.

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Bratton was a class act. I hope he comes back to NYC.

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deca2, did I hurt your feelings or something? What's with the cheap imitation? You don't even come close to the wit and wisdom.

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Nor the 'roid rage deca2.

major prima donna attention whore!

I just show up here for five minutes, and just because I'm not a latte-sipping homo you all jump on me. (Note how I wrote "homo" and not "f-----", even though the latter is what I was really thinking. I'm classy like that.)

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