"It's a tremendous opportunity to make history," said Arturo Placencia, former president of the Latin American Law Enforcement Association, an organization of Los Angeles Hispanic officers. "To get a Latino police chief or a woman chief would be as important as when Antonio Villaraigosa was elected the first Latino mayor of Los Angeles." Jan Tucker, co-president of the National Organization for Women's San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles chapter, said the selection of a woman would be unheard of a generation ago. Full Article at Daily Breeze