US law enforcer in talks for UK cop job
William Bratton tapped for job by PM Cameron
http://www.kxan.com/dpps/news/national/northeast/bratton-in-talks-for-uk-police-job-wd11-jgr_3910660Updated: Friday, 12 Aug 2011, 10:33 AM CDT
Published : Friday, 12 Aug 2011, 10:33 AM CDT
TOM HAYS,Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) — William Bratton, who as police chief in New York, Boston and Los Angeles built a reputation for quelling gang activity, is in talks with the British government to become an adviser on calming the violence there, he told The Associated Press on Friday.
Bratton said he received a phone call Friday from Prime Minister David Cameron asking him whether he would consider becoming a consultant for British police. He said he thanked Cameron for the opportunity and will continue speaking with British officials to formalize an agreement.
"This is a prime minister who has a clear idea of what he wants to do," Bratton told the AP in a phone interview. "He sees this crisis as a way to bring change. The police force there can be a catalyst for that. I'm very optimistic."
Bratton left the Los Angeles police in 2009 and is now a private security firm executive.
On Thursday, as Britain's Parliament took up an emergency debate on the riots, Cameron told lawmakers he would look to cities like Boston for inspiration, and he mentioned Bratton as a person who could help offer advice.
Bratton had said in a statement Thursday that he would be "pleased and honored" to provide services and counsel in any capacity, adding that he loves London and has worked with British police for nearly 20 years.
After a week of violence, police in London said Friday they have charged almost 600 people with violence, disorder and looting over the deadly riots in the capital alone. Across the country, more than 1,700 people have been arrested.
Cameron said officers had been overwhelmed at first and outmaneuvered by mobile gangs of rioters. He said "far too few police were deployed onto the streets. And the tactics they were using weren't working."Warning sub-note:
Bratton is also ex-LAPD, and LA has even a higher murder rate, according to the BBC today, than NY.
This will just be the beginniing. Cameron, from his Scottish Roots is going over to the Native, Male on Male Predatory response mode, like all other Jocks we've seen in Downing Street in the last 10 years. His responses to the riots, in the coming weeks, will shape a new British Police Stage, State Seige Mentality, and Cameron's mind will be opened to such concepts as three strikes and Life imprisonment, FEMA & Labour Camps for unemployed Rioters, to be built somewhere in EU. Most will say like I'm supposed to: "At last something is being done".
I reckon there's a good chance though. America and 'The Essential Relationship' cannot allow Britian's aspiration to Freedom and Non-Slavery to continue unfettered ... in this Bravest of New World Visions.
We are a thorn in the side of a Pan-European Demagoguey
