Moderated by Jim Newton, L.A. Times Editorial Page Editor

William J. Bratton, America’s widely acclaimed top cop, arrived in Los Angeles in 2002 to head the country’s third-largest police department. Since then he’s overseen a 27% decline in homicides and a 29% decline in serious crimes over the past five years. He has also been both praised and criticized for his handling of federal reform mandates, for releasing names of major gang members, for defending Special Order 40, and for his response to controversial uses of police force, including the death of 13-year-old Devin Brown and the May 1 MacArthur Park incident. Chief Bratton sits down with Jim Newton, who covered the LAPD for the Times in the mid-1990s, to talk about crime in the city, controversy in the LAPD, and goals for his likely second term.