Police Chief William Bratton is boasting that his city of Los Angeles is a peaceful place to live in again. He says it's largely due to the fact that Britney Spears has "started wearing clothes" and Lindsay Lohan has "gone gay" and - God, be praised - even Paris Hilton is "out of town".
Thanks to this Perfect Storm of decency from the three most troubling Hollywood celebs, the paparazzi swarm has become sickly and its numbers dwindling from the lack of fresh trash to feed on.
Bratton said the altered behavior makes proposals being considered for new laws to crack down on paparazzi an unnecessary "farce" because photogs who swarm neighborhoods and shopping districts have been losing interest in snapping stars in trouble.
"If you've noticed, since Britney started wearing clothes and behaving; Paris is out of town not bothering anybody anymore, thank God, and evidently, Lindsay Lohan has gone gay, we don't seem to have much of an issue," Bratton told KNBC-TV.
He then added his opinion as to how the madness came be stopped: "If the ones that attract the paparazzi behave in the first place - like we expect of anybody - that solves about 90 percent of the problem. The rest we can deal with."
After hearing Councilman Dennis Zine discussing possible restrictions on freelance photographers, Bratton told a TV reporter that more laws were unnecessary and what was needed was for law enforcement to enforce existing ordinances already on the books.
He mentions that in July, for example, police arrested two photographers for loitering near Spears' home.
