edited by: Adam Haverstock,
California Editor
Charlie Beck, the top choice of Mayor Villaraigosa and outgoing chief Bill Bratton to assume the top job in the LAPD, was confirmed by the LA City Council for that position this week.
After some wrangling about the mechanics of the interview process, the council ultimately confirmed Beck unanimously. Now, [...]
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa swears in LAPD Chief Charlie BeckPhoto from LA Times Al Seib From the Los Angeles Times. The Los Angeles City Council today appointed Charlie Beck as the city's new police chief.
There’s a war going on in Ameica, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck’s internal organs.
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Charlie Beck, chief-designate of the Los Angeles Police Department, visited with reporters, editors and members of The Times' editorial board Wednesday, the day after Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced his nomination of Beck as the next LAPD chief. In some areas, Beck distinguished himself (though [...]
The Glenn Beck wing of the conservative right held another Tea Party in Washington DC today and Rep. John Campbell (R-Orly Taitz) is there backing up Rep. Michelle Bachman (R-Minn) as one of the leading [...]
Charlie Beck, Deputy Chief under outgoing Chief William Bratton, has been officially tabbed as his boss' successor. Mayor Villariaigosa made the announcement Tuesday, but as the Times writes, there was some interesting backchannel maneuvering to get Beck the gig.
Evidently, as Bratton began confiding his retirement plans to advisers and the [...]
The notion that Palin and Beck are "right-wing extremists" and that the defeat of Hoffman in NY-23 was the defeat of "right-wing extremism" is silly political mischaracterization. Conservatism is not right-wing extremism. "Extremism" is, in nearly everyone's political lexicon, a politically illegimate political position. Conservatism is not politically illegimate, but is, in [...]
The Times editorial board and columnist Tim Rutten both throw their support behind Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's choice of Charlie Beck to lead the [...]
