Chief Bratton to LA Weekly: You Stoners

If you want good quotes, you go to LAPD Chief Bratton. He's always been one to be candid (remember his celebrity gossp/analysis?) Well yesterday, he joined Patt Morrision for her show on KPCC and when asked about LA Weekly's April 30th story refuting the LAPD's touted crime statistics, he dismissed it calling the report "voodoo journalism" said writer Patrick Range McDonald and cohorts must have "smoking a little weed when they wrote the article." That didn't sit well with Tina Dupuy at FishbowlLA:

There is something very unsettling about a member of the LAPD accusing a reporter of doing drugs for disagreeing with them. That would go for any police force, but the LAPD - in a post-Rampart world - throwing around the 'you're a dope head' dismissal for challenging his murky crime stats, is really...scary. And incredibly stupid.

It should be noted that Bratton "fully supports medicinal marijuana." You can listen to the show here, the comment comes in around 27 minutes.