Hollywood bill: can Bill Bratton, Los Angeles' new chief of police, fight crime as well as he woos the rich and famous? (Eye).

W, May, 2003 by Cutter, Kimberly

At first glance, a couple with a fondness for caviar, flashbulbs and dinners with Warren Beatty might not seem ideally suited to the job of wresting Los Angeles from its reputation as the murder capital of the United States. But L.A.'s new police chief, Bill Bratton, and his wife, former Court TV anchor Rikki Klieman, are here in their matching gold Rolexes to tell you otherwise.

"This job is about building impressions, and not just in poor, minority neighborhoods," Bratton says. "It's about building impressions in the white neighborhoods, too." The 53-year-old police chief, who was sworn in last October, first came to national attention almost a decade ago as commissioner of the New York Police Department under then-mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Bratton cut New...

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