New LAPD Chief Bratton in Israel for 6 Days

by
Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan

Los Angeles, Alta California - December 9, 2002 - (ACN) Just 45 days into his term as the new Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, Bill Bratton is already in Israel for 6 days of training and meetings with top Israeli "security and anti-terrorism experts." Bratton is married to prominent Jewish attorney and co-anchor of Court TV Rikki Klieman. Chief Bratton also has very strong social and political connections to Michael Bloomberg, the new Jewish Mayor of New York City. Chief Bratton departed to Tel-Aviv on Saturday and will not be back to attend to his duties at Parker Center until Monday December 16.

Los Angeles, like New York City, has a great concentration of Jews and recently the possibility of terrorists attacks on their community has become a big worry. In June, prior to the appointment of Bratton, a top ranking "bomb expert" in the the Los Angeles Police Department as well as two others from the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department spent a number of unspecified days in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to train on how to deal with "suicide bombers". Ralph Morten, an LAPD specialist on terrorism and organizer of the training mission in Israel said, "We need to be ready". Now the new chief is in Israel for the same thing.

Chief Bill Bratton said, "I think the Los Angeles Jewish community should feel comfortable knowing there is a high priority toward preventing and protecting against acts of bias and hatred and terror, in particular, in this new environment of concern," he added, "Since I've become chief, I ve been very impressed with the level of preparedness in the city, and also our ability to respond when needed."

"The city has identified 450 potential significant targets of terrorist activity," he said. "Obviously, among those would be the Israeli consul-general’s office, temples, and the Museum of Tolerance," Bratton said. "We constantly monitor the threats that are coming in. Los Angeles, along with New York City and Washington, D.C., would be the highest-profile targets of any anti-Jewish terrorism in this country."

"The LAPD participates in two anti-terrorism task forces, and we have a large contingent of officers assigned to counterterrorism," he continued. "In the months ahead as we continue to reorganize the department, we are going to focus more on this."

Bill Bratton served the Jewish community in New York City very well and they liked him very much. They particularly liked his strong clamp down on the Blacks during the riots between Chasidic Jews that erupted in the Crown Heights section of New York. New York City Jewish Councilman Noach Dear of the largely Orthodox Boro Park section, told newspapers last year that Bratton "is music to our ears."

Rabbi Mark Diamond, executive director of the Southern California Board of Rabbis, said that Bratton's service to the Jewish community was one reason they picked him for Chief of the LAPD.

Bill Bratton, in a recent press interview by the L.A. Jewish media said, "Of course I am the police chief of the whole city but having spent quite a bit of time in New York City, which has a large and similarly focused Jewish community, dealing with the ADL and being married to a Jewish woman, I have an appreciation for the fear among some, as well as the hatred and the prejudice they face. Los Angeles has certainly seen some of the hatred against Jews that has been experienced in other parts of the country and the world."

Because of the brutal Jewish occupation of Palestine and the Los Angeles Jewish community's support of Zionist Israel, the large Mexican-American population in Los Angeles might end up being the indirect victims of a massive biological and/or nuclear attack upon the city. God help us all!