BRATTON MAKES SURPRISE VISIT TO TV CRITICS.Byline: - Valerie Kuklenski Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Chief William Bratton was a surprise guest at the ``Court TV'' session of the Television Critics Association The Television Critics Association (or TCA) is a group of approximately 200 United States and Canadian journalists and columnists who cover television programming. They meet in the Los Angeles area twice a year, in January and July, in conferences known as Winter and Summer gathering in Hollywood. Bratton appeared with Al Roker Al Roker (born August 20, 1954) is an American television broadcaster, best known as the weather anchor for NBC's Today show. He holds American Meteorological Society Television Seal #238. of NBC's ``Today'' to discuss the documentary ``Al Roker Investigates: The Farmingville Incident,'' detailing a racial hate crime that took place in September 2000 not far from the former New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. police commissioner's Long Island home. Bratton, whose wife is ``Court TV'' daytime anchor Rikki Kleiman, said he is passionate about the documentary's subject, regardless of his wife's employment. Bratton said when he worked in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and now in Los Angeles, the two statistics he asks for daily in his morning briefing are murders and hate crimes reported by the overnight shift. ``Those are the two priorities,'' he said. He said Los Angeles' hate-crime problem is significant enough to warrant that attention on his part. ``We don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. if it's increasing or decreasing,'' he added, suggesting that heightened awareness among patrol officers and detectives could mean improvements in preventing such crimes or identifying them. He also said illegal aliens may be more likely to report crimes as victims or witnesses now that department regulations forbid officers from noting their immigrant status. CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) BRATTON |
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