The Next Chief of the LAPD

Today, tomorrow and Monday, Mayor Villaraigosa will interview the three finalists to succeed Bill Bratton as Chief of the LAPD. Charlie Beck and Michel Moore are deputy chiefs. Jim McDonnell is Assistant Chief and Bratton's chief of staff. They were chosen by the police commission, headed by civil rights leader John Mack. Celeste Fremon, a freelance reporter specializing in criminal justice, teaches at the USC Annenberg School for Journalism and blogs at WitnessLA.