Mayor Garcetti Appointed Michel Moore as Next LAPD Chief

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti has chosen Michel Moore, a 36-year LAPD veteran known for his mastery of subjects from crime statistics to budgets, to be the city’s next police chief, sources familiar with the decision said Monday.

Moore, a 37-year veteran of the force, runs the LAPD’s day-to-day patrol operations as first assistant chief, the number two at the department behind Beck, who’s stepping down June 27.

Moore, 54, has held nearly every top job at the department, overseeing everything from the budget to personnel to special operations.

The other finalists were also LAPD veterans: Deputy Chief Robert Arcos, who runs the department’s Central Bureau, and Bill Scott, who left L.A. 1 ½ years ago to lead the troubled San Francisco Police Department.

Arcos, a third-generation Mexican American, had the backing of some powerful Latino politicians and would have been the first Latino police chief of a city that is nearly 50% Latino. Scott is African American and has strong ties in South Los Angeles after heading the LAPD’s South Bureau.