Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (62 page)

Born in Puerto Rico in 1967
: Ibid.

One of three children
: Ibid.

Brooklyn . . . Paterson
: Ibid.

northern Philadelphia
: Ibid.

uncle . . . drug ring
: Ibid.

U.S. Marine Corps infantryman
: Ibid.

joined the LAPD in June of 1989
: Ibid.

Assigned first to the . . . Harbor Division
: Ibid.

then worked patrol in Wilshire Division
: Ibid.

David Mack . . . raised on the cruel streets of Compton
: “Ex-LAPD Officer Sentenced in Bank of America Robbery,”
LAT
, September 14, 1999; “The Dirtiest Cop Alive,”
Maxim
, November 2000; “Bad Cops,”
New Yorker
, May 21, 2001.

attended the University of Oregon on a track scholarship
: “Officer Charged in Bank Heist That Netted $722,000,”
LAT
, December 18, 1997; “The Dirtiest Cop Alive”; “Bad Cops.”

NCAA 800-meter champion
: Ibid.

qualified for the Olympics
: “Ex-LAPD Officer Sentenced in Bank of America Robbery”; “Who Killed B.I.G.?”

rumored to have dated . . . Florence Griffith Joyner
: “Dream Chaser,”
ESPN.com
, August 26, 2009; “The Dirtiest Cop Alive.”

two children
: “Ex-LAPD Officer Sentenced in Bank of America Robbery”; “Bad Cops”; “Who Killed B.I.G.?”

Bill Bratton and Rudolph Giuliani, November 1993, New York City

Rudolph Giuliani . . . grown up in Brooklyn and Long Island
: “Growing Up Giuliani,”
Newsweek
, November 24, 2007.

four uncles who were cops
: Kirtzman,
Rudy Giuliani
:
Emperor of the City
, 93.

“We’re Taking the Subways Back—for You”
: Bratton and Knobler,
Turnaround
, 177.

Bratton had been “pleased and flattered”
: Ibid., 179.

Maple began to scribble on a cocktail napkin
: “Jack Maple, 48, a Designer of City Crime Control Strategies,”
NYT
, August 6, 2001.

Miller . . . “best Rolodex in America”
: William Bratton interview; “Journalism Scoops or Shortcuts?”
LAT
, December 14, 2002.

sparring with . . . John Gotti
: Bratton and Knobler,
Turnaround
, xii; Kirtzman,
Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City
, 93.

“Rudy hasn’t taken credit for”
: “Rudy to City, Pay Up and Shut Up!”
New York
, October 25, 1999.

Jack Maple . . . homburg hat– and bow tie–wearing
: “Jack Maple, 48, a Designer of City Crime Control Strategies”; Kirtzman,
Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City
, 90.

no accident that the three were sitting at Elaine’s
: Bratton and Knobler,
Turnaround
, xii; Kirtzman,
Rudy Giuliani: Emperor of the City
, 93.

Bratton, whose third wife had returned to Boston
: “Bratton, Wife Seen on Rocks,”
NYDN
, January 13, 1998.

“a very good time”
: Bratton and Knobler,
Turnaround
, 259.

“Broadway Bill”
: “Bratton Is Sworn In for Second Term,”
LAT
, October 26, 2007.

Maple called it COMPSTAT
: “Jack Maple, 48, a Designer of City Crime Control Strategies.”

NYPD . . . now thirty-eight thousand officers strong
: “NYPD Leader Finds Fame in Crime’s Demise,” AP, February 10, 1996; “Brass from Past; Fewer Finest Can Still Hack It: Ex-Top Cop,”
New York Post
, April 27, 2003.

special thirty-five-officer unit
: “Bratton: The Making of a Police Visionary.”

new public housing units commissioned by Mayor Ed Koch
: “Ed Koch Dead: Mayor Who Became a Symbol of New York Passes Away at 88,”
NYDN
, February 1, 2013; “Ed Koch, Former Mayor of New York, Dies,”
Boston Globe
, February 1, 2013.

murders in New York City . . . dropped by almost 385 from 1994
: “Bratton: The Making of a Police Visionary”;
NYDN
, December 30, 2013.

would fall by almost 590
: “Bratton: The Making of a Police Visionary.”

Total felonies in 1995 . . . decrease by 27 percent
: Ibid.

robberies by over 30 percent
: Ibid.

burglaries by 25 percent
: Ibid.

his image, dressed in a 1940s tan raincoat
: “One Good Apple,”
Time
, January 15, 1996.

Willie Williams, 1992–1993, Los Angeles

Willie Williams . . . job approval rating was 67 percent
: Reese, “The Rise and Fall of a Public Leader.”

jumped to 72 percent
: Ibid.

Los Angeles Times
poll
: “The Times Poll: Riordan Rates Favorably with 45% of Citizens,”
LAT
, November 7, 1993.

and he would ignore them
: “L.A. Police Commission Moves to Oust Chief Willie Williams,”
Chicago Tribune
, March 10, 1997.

“in Philadelphia he had only one boss—the mayor”
: Gary Greenebaum interview.

but in Los Angeles “he had 21 bosses”
: “LAPD Reform: Too Many Cooks in the Kitchen,”
LAT
, June 4, 1996; “The Chief Looks Back,”
LAT
, May 16, 1997; Gary Greenebaum interview.

stopped attending L.A.’s Criminal Justice Group
: Reese, “The Rise and Fall of a Public Leader.”

“He never talked to the commission”
: Anthony De Los Reyes interview.

“he said he’d get back to me”
: Ibid.

“But he didn’t want to know anything”
: David Dotson interview.

Richard Riordan and Willie Williams, June 1993, Los Angeles City Hall

“10,500 officers”
: “LAPD Cannot Meet Riordan’s Goal, Chief Says,”
LAT
, July 14, 1993; “Riordan Steadfast on LAPD Expansion,”
LAT
, July 15, 1993; “Williams Finishes Plan to Bolster LAPD,”
LAT
, September 3, 1993.

Riordan . . . Williams and his wife for dinner at his home
: “Help Wanted,”
LAT
, July 27, 1997.

best police chief in America
: Ibid.

“Sorry Mr. Mayor”
: “LAPD Cannot Meet Riordan’s Goal, Chief Says”; “Riordan Steadfast on LAPD Expansion”; “Williams Finishes Plan to Bolster LAPD”; “Say Goodbye to Hollywood”; Gary Greenebaum interview.

Richard Riordan . . . ex–New Yorker raised in Queens
: “New Mayor Faces Hard Part: Running Los Angeles,”
NYT
, July 2, 1993.

junk-bond industry
: “Riordan Puts His Millions Behind Bid to ‘Rescue’ L.A.,”
LAT
, March 23, 1993;
Businessweek
, May 9, 1993; “L.A. Mayoral Contest: Voters Look for ‘Neither,’ ”
Christian Science Monitor
, June 8, 1993; “Top Gun, Richard Riordan’s Plans for Our Next Police Chief,”
LA Weekly
, July 11–17, 1997.

lavishly supporting L.A.’s Roman Catholic archdiocese
: “Riordan Is a Catholic, but He’ll Be Judged on His Acts as Mayor,”
LAT
, July 17, 1993.

“Tough Enough to Turn L.A. Around”
: “Riordan Puts His Millions Behind Bid to ‘Rescue’ L.A.”; Gary Greenebaum interview.

hundreds of thousands of dollars into his own campaign
: “Riordan Puts His Millions Behind Bid to ‘Rescue’ L.A.”

add three thousand cops
: “Riordan Steadfast on LAPD Expansion.”

As a corporate CEO
: “Riordan Puts His Millions Behind Bid to ‘Rescue’ L.A.”; “Perspectives on the Mayor’s Race: Candidates Cut Through Campaign Distortions,”
LAT
, June 6, 1993; “Say Goodbye to Hollywood.”

headed two law firms
: “Riordan Puts His Millions Behind Bid to ‘Rescue’ L.A.”; “Mayor Should Round Out His Inner Circle,”
LAT
, May 10, 1996.

“a terrible position”
: David Dotson interview.

LAPD chief’s tenure
: Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department,
Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department
, 210.

Richard Riordan, 1993

“business friendly”
: “GOP Maverick to Make Run for Governor/Ex–L.A. Mayor Riordan Shows Strength in Polls,”
San Francisco Chronicle
, November 6, 2001.

Protestant emigrants from the Midwest
: Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve
, 32.

Bill Parker was Catholic
: Ibid., 91.

hundreds of thousands of Latino immigrants
: “A Painful Choice Between a Parish and a Church,”
LAT
, March 7, 1994.

$3 billion in assets
: “Pope John Paul II Has Appointed Two Bishops,”
Orlando Sentinel
, March 21, 1990.

budget of nearly $300 million
: Ibid.

284 parishes
: “A Painful Choice Between a Parish and a Church.”

Riordan would raise over $84 million
: “They’ve Gone on Offensive for Education,”
LAT
, September 23, 1990.

Cardinal Mahony . . . helicopter
: “Riordan Puts His Millions Behind Bid to ‘Rescue’ L.A.”; “Riordan Is a Catholic, but He’ll Be Judged on His Acts as Mayor.”

John F. Kennedy’s presidential campaign . . . Wardlaw
: “Reign Maker,”
Los Angeles Magazine
, January 2005; “Mayor Should Round Out His Inner Circle.”

Bill Clinton’s crisis-filled first presidential campaign
: “Reign Maker.”

Riordan and McKenzie
: “Reign Maker”; “Mayor Should Round Out His Inner Circle.”

had been his protégé
: Ibid.

$35 million cathedral
:
LAT
, September 3, 1999; “Reign Maker.”

Mount St. Mary’s College
:
The Mount
, Winter/Spring 2005.