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LAPD chief William Bratton has given another interview across the pond — to ITV's London Tonight program (pardon me, programme) — and his remarks about British justice caught the eye of the Telegraph newspaper.
The police chief said the emphasis in Britain had to move on from responding to crime to preventing it, admitting that current methods were like a Sherlock Holmes-style form of policing.He also accused British courts of giving a green light to teenage criminals to carry knives by allowing those in possession of the weapons to get away with cautions....
Speaking of the British government's stance on zero tolerance, he said: "Politicians love it, Jack Straw loved it and brought it back across the Atlantic, but it was never fully understood in your country.
"Zero tolerance is a simplistic approach that is doomed to failure."
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said, "Mr Bratton is entitled to his opinion."
Also in the Telegraph: The related links in the right-hand column point to an Editor's Choice story on the paper's favorite George W. Bush photos. Here's the montage with the teaser:
