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Constance L. Rice
"Police and city leaders are on the right track to changing the department's image. None of these changes means that the LAPD — or even these particular problems — is finally fixed. But it does mean that today's LAPD is not your grandfather's LAPD. Police Chief William Bratton, a gifted and tenacious leader, has a policing vision that is putting the LAPD on the right road. He envisions a force that has the resources to fight crime and ward off terrorism by winning trust in our poorest communities "through compassionate and constitutional" policing and by becoming a "catalyst for meaningful social change" and racial healing. "
