Britney Spears traipsing around Beverly Hills (2/12)

You may have heard that Los Angeles City councilman Dennis Zine has proposed creating an anti-paparazzi "Personal Safety Law" for the city. If you haven't, let me be the first to tell you that Los Angeles City councilman Dennis Zine has proposed creating an anti-paparazzi "Personal Safety Law" for the city. The measure would create a "personal safety zone" of 10-20 feet around celebrities hounded by paparazzi. See if you can figure out if LAPD chief William Bratton is in favor of the law (quotes from a radio interview on Wednesday via LA Observed):

"What we need is Britney Spears to stay home instead of traipsing all over town. That would solve the problem. We don't need additional laws.... I've got laws coming out my ears to deal with this issue."

But what about cockhounds like Paris and Lindsay? Why surely Chief Bratton must be a fan of women like that . . .

"What you have is several young women in this town and several young men basically making fools of themselves and tying up not only my resources but the resources of the media that would do better covering legitimate stories instead of a bunch of airheads running around out there . . . Quite clearly some of these characters so favored by the paparazzi are clearly in need of services. Not police services, but psychiatric services." (Source)

In other news, Celebslam is pleased to announce that LAPD chief William Bratton will be writing a weekly column for the site! He doesn't know it yet but I think that bouquet of pink roses I'm sending is sure to be all the convincing he needs.

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