William Bratton

Oakland police struggle to rebuild — using fewer resources

2013-05-18 18:00:00

OAKLAND — It was a quiet evening by this city's standards, and still the police emergency lines were lighting up. As screams rang out behind her, a caller said her neighbor was being beaten. A woman reported that a front door down the street had...

Oakland police chief takes medical retirement

2013-05-08 23:12:00

OAKLAND — The embattled Oakland police chief abruptly announced a medical retirement Wednesday, hours before a team of consultants — working for former Los Angeles Police Chief William J. Bratton — was scheduled to lay out a crime-...

Chief of embattled Oakland police steps down, citing medical issues

2013-05-08 15:43:00

OAKLAND — The chief of the embattled Oakland Police Department abruptly announced a medical retirement Wednesday, hours before a team of consultants — among them former Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton — was scheduled to lay...

A decade of trying to raise L.A.'s sales tax

2013-03-04 12:00:00

The half-cent sales tax increase proposal on the March 5 ballot known as Proposition A has been around for a long time in many guises, sometimes as a county tax, sometimes a city tax. Threats and reasons offered by Los Angeles city officials have...

Dorner manhunt: In defense of the LAPD

2013-02-12 12:45:00

For an organization traumatized by the shootings of a few of their own and officers in other jurisdictions, the Los Angeles Police Department isn't getting much sympathy from Times letter writers in response to the search for ex-cop Christopher Jordan...

Dorner's LAPD is on the way out

2013-02-09 18:51:00

There won't be a happy ending to Christopher Dorner's quest for vengeance against the Los Angeles Police Department. Nothing justifies his murder of innocents or his threats against LAPD personnel and their families. The only positive thing that can...

Dorner: Records show why ex-cop was thought to have fled to Mexico

2013-02-11 20:43:57

Oakland approves crime-fighting steps after stormy meeting

2013-01-23 11:32:41

LAPD in danger of layoffs without sales tax hike, chief warns

2012-11-08 15:23:09

L.A. parking ticket refunds can now be researched online

2012-10-15 12:22:21

Last suspect in Cheryl Green hate-crime murder gets 238 years

2012-06-20 21:35:19

20 years after riots, hope and despair in South L.A.

2012-04-08 00:00:00

To think deeply and compassionately about South Los Angeles as we approach the 20th anniversary of the L.A. riots is to inhabit a middle ground between optimism and bleak defeat. A lot of good is going on in the inner city. But the last two decades...

Frank McCourt speaks at a news conference alongside Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck, left, and former LAPD head William Bratton at Dodger Stadium on April 14. The team introduces new security measures after Bryan Stow, a San Francisco Giants fan, is attacked in the Dodger Stadium

2011-04-20 17:22:45

Former LAPD Police Chief William J. Bratton, now serving as a security consultant to the Dodgers, stands outside the stadium.

2011-04-14 00:00:00

Former LAPD Chief William J. Bratton admires his honorary Doctor of Laws degree after receiving it from USC President Steven B. Sample, left.

2010-05-14 00:00:00