Next chief should come from inside LAPD

As the city considers hiring a successor to departing Police Chief William Bratton, the consensus at a public meeting Thursday night was the ideal candidate would follow Bratton's examples and would come from within the department.Tony Castro in the Daily News.

The comments by San Fernando Valley residents came at the fourth of five community meetings held by the Police Commission to solicit public input on the next chief.

"My first recommendation would be to see if we could clone our current chief," said Cary Iaccino of the Reseda Neighborhood Council. "I believe we should look for somebody within first, but being such a great city that we are ... I think we can get pretty much the best of the best."