Beck prepares for chief's job

Even though his confirmation as Los Angeles police chief is a virtual certainty, Deputy Chief Charlie Beck has stayed away from the 10th floor -- where his new offices are located. Daily News.

"Not been up there, not going up there," Beck said in an interview Friday from his sixth-floor office at the new Police Administration Building. "I'm kind of like a ballplayer who doesn't want to do anything to jinx it."

Beck's nomination as the 55th chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is to be considered by the City Council on Tuesday. Based on interviews with a majority of the council, the vote for his five-year contract to succeed William Bratton seems assured.