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EDITORIAL CONDUCT UNBECOMING.


WE would have thought whining would be beneath Police Chief William Bratton, a career cop hardened on the streets of Boston and 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
.

But when the City Council voted to postpone post·pone  
tr.v. post·poned, post·pon·ing, post·pones
1. To delay until a future time; put off. See Synonyms at defer1.

2. To place after in importance; subordinate.
 hiring 320 new cops for the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).

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, Bratton turned on the whimper. If he can't get the new officers, he says, he's taking back his promise to cut homicides by 25 percent and overall crime by 10 percent this year.

Boohoo boohoo
Verb

[-hooing, -hooed]

to sob or pretend to sob noisily

Noun

pl -hoos

distressed or pretended sobbing
.

Never mind that the year is almost half over, and the new cops Bratton wants wouldn't be recruited, trained and on the streets before 2004. The bigger point is that the chief likes to sell himself as a man uninterested in excuses - tough enough to get the job done, period.

If his whine were anything more than a stunt to manipulate the City Council, we'd be worried. The LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel.
2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department.
 can't afford a chief who breaks down and breaks his word when he doesn't get his way.

Get over it, chief; this is Chinatown, and you knew when you took the job.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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Date:Jun 2, 2003
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