http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/02/13/for_bratton_fatal_shooting_underscores_challenges_at_lapd/
Jill Leovy
"Bratton cited two goals: One was to calm public rage. People "have a right to be upset," he said. But he also wanted to remind them that "nothing is gained by emotion leading to violent action. We have been down that road too many times in this city, and in America. It gets to nothing." His second goal was to cast the issue as a key test of LAPD reforms enacted under a federal consent decree. Let the process work, he said, again and again."
