LA mayor picks LAPD veteran Michel Moore to be next chief
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Monday that he has chosen Michel Moore, a 36-year LAPD veteran known for his mastery of subjects from crime statistics to budgets, to be the city's next police chief.
Moore, 57, who runs the department's patrol operations, was one of three finalists chosen by the civilian Police Commission from a field of 31 applicants for chief of one of the nation's largest police departments.
The other finalists were also LAPD veterans: Deputy Chief Robert Arcos, who runs the department's Central Bureau, and Bill Scott, who left L.A. 1 1/2 years ago to lead the troubled San Francisco Police Department.
Moore "doesn't need to hit the ground running. He's already running," Garcetti said at an afternoon news
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