Dick Wolf has breakfast with Los Angeles magazine

Los Angeles moved its periodic breakfast series to Kate Mantilini in Beverly Hills for this morning's session with the creator of "Law and Order: Los Angeles." Wolf regaled the likes of City Council president Eric Garcetti, exiting Bon Appetit editor Barbara Fairchild and NBC correspondent Josh Mankiewicz with behind-the-scenes stories from the show. "We are trying to fulfill an expectation of what LA is about," he replied to a question about stereotyping L.A. "The first episode was very deliberate—it’s not going to be Hollywood every week, but I thought it really was the best way to introduce the show, to show that it was really different from the New York version.”

Also this observation about cops:

I spent about a year going to crime scenes with an L.A. homicide detective which was really interesting and I learned a great deal...I fully believe if you go around there is actually a cop gene. It doesn’t matter if you are in Asia, Europe, you can look at a group of people and go cop, cop, cop....

If you took a 35-year-old NYPD patrolman and a 35-year-old LAPD patrolman, the L.A. guy looks like he could be in the Wehrmacht—razor-creased, stand-up straight. New York cops all look like they’ve got two-day hangovers. It’s a different rhythm, because New York is community policing and the LAPD is really a paramilitary organization by design.