According to this puff-piece masquerading as a news profile in Sunday's L.A. Times, John Timoney would make a good police commissioner for the city. He is one of three finalists for the job. It's no secret that our vote goes to his former mentor, William Bratton, who has served as police commissioner of both New York and Boston.

But we'll just report here, you decide.

Titled Timoney Has Made a Career of Cleaning Up Police Messes, the LA Times article quotes Timoney, now in a $250,000 cushy job for the NY security firm headed by former NY cop Bo Dietl, as follows:

"Since he resigned his Philadelphia post a year ago to manage a private-sector New York security firm, "I miss the phone calls at 3 o'clock in the morning," he admitted in an interview last week. " 'Commissioner, we've got a problem--we shot the wrong guy.' I miss being part of the action."