Mayor's pick for chief to face tough days

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is expected to announce his choice for the next LAPD chief today, touching off a whirlwind campaign to win official and community approval for Assistant Chief Jim McDonnell, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck or Deputy Chief Michel Moore.

[get a life]

If it has the slime bucket midget mayors finger print on it...AVOID AT ALL COST!!

[cheef already chosn]

Beck is the "chosen one." Villaraigosa is the Cesar Chavez of Los Angeles, do you get my drift?

[just say no to corruption]

Building and Safety gets a new manager? Its about time. Adelman was qualified by resume, but his character could not have been worse. The Building Department could not have been more rotten from the top, which shows us how much character matters. I hope the next choices are better.

[John]

McDonnell is the only choice for this city> If Villaragosa wants his legecy to be saved, he will choose McDonnell!

[cheef already chosn]

John wrote:

McDonnell is the only choice for this city> If Villaragosa wants his legecy to be saved, he will choose McDonnell!

but the chosen must be of 'gods' people... sort of like the lafd chief.., he;s married to a chosen one. they like cesar chavez and villaraigosa is the same.

[Im telling]

Which one of them solves crime rather than hides it?

[former lbusd educator]

it doesnt matter. this is anew era of israelites in los angeles. thanks tony.

[Wow]

The gang bangers can ask where your from but the police can't.

[Dennis]

The Mayor is a joke and using this forum to highlight himself and photo ops. Where is the outrage for disrespecting the position of the next chief of police? why didn't David Freeman DWP honcho have to go through this? Eight days of a dog and pony show all for the FAILURE OF A MAYOR. He wants to re do his image because of the negative opinon piece in LA Times but using the next chief is outrageous. Call the mayor's office to let them know this is wrong.

[Just the Truth]

The police chief leaves. The fire chief leaves. The D.A. leaves. The mayor stays???? Do you see a pattern??? The gangbangers are even calling the new police chief "Little Puppet"

[Just My Opinion]

Why haven't the mayor been offered a job?

[Robert]

The fact is Villaraigosa isnt’ looking too good these days especially with that Robert Greene hit failure opinion piece in that other paper. Its insulting, despicable and disrespectful that Antonio is using this issue for more photo ops for himself. The fact he is going to drag this poor nominee throughout the city to get their input shows his lack of confidence and insecurity at making HIS decision. That should have been done first. Everytime the candidates go to his house a press release is sent out, now if that doesn’t show the outrageous behavior of parading these poor men just so Antonio can see himself on the news. Community members are outraged and officers are calling this show a charade, travesty and more. E-mails are flying when Antonio shows up to their neighborhood to let him have it for making a spectacle and degrading the Chief of Police position. Antonio didn’t do this with DWP David Freeman or any other dept. head. This is beyond ridiculing the process

[Dennis]

OMG Channel 5 saying Michael Moore is Latino. What a big fat LIE. He's as white as Casper. This is insulting to the Latino community. someone stop the insanity!!

[Jeff]

If Michel Moore gets picked as Chief, get ready to face the antichrist. Take my word for it, the man looks decent on the outside, but hes pure evil inside.

[Tony Rap]

Dennis wrote:

OMG Channel 5 saying Michael Moore is Latino. What a big fat LIE. He's as white as Casper. This is insulting to the Latino community. someone stop the insanity!!

How in the hell do you insult the Latino community?