Police Chief Calls L.A. Weekly Story 'Voodoo Reporting'
By AAN Staff
may 22, 2009 11:09 am
Appearing on a local radio show this week, Los Angeles Police Department chief Bill Bratton went after a recent
Weekly cover story that questioned his department's use of crime statistics -- especially Bratton's assurances that crime levels are on par with L.A.'s in 1956. As the chief and radio host segued out of a discussion on drug laws, Bratton cracked, "I think they were smoking a little weed when they wrote that article." He claimed the article was part of a vendetta the
Weekly has against Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and added that he stood by the department's numbers. "It's kind of voodoo reporting," he said of the story.
