One day after being named the new Chief of the LAPD, Bill Bratton warned officers to get with his program and outlined his template for change.

The template "will be the federal consent decree that the city signed last year after the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that the LAPD had for years been engaging in a "pattern or practice" of civil rights violations."

"If you don't embrace [the decree], if you aren't prepared to embrace it, put your retirement papers in, because you won't be part of my command staff driving change in this department."

Bratton said "the consent decree should dictate the technology used by the department, showing the public that it is getting a professional force, not officers who practice brutality or racism."

"In blunt comments about the current state of police work in Los Angeles, he eviscerated whole sections of the LAPD, dubbing the crime-tracking computer system "a joke" and criticizing the department's "shotgun approach" to training."

"He said that he had never failed at a job and that he wouldn't fail now. "This department needs to clearly understand there's a new sheriff in town," he said."