Lee Brown will or won't testify; not a vital matter, all agree.

In the summer of 1990 I interviewed the police commissioner, Lee Brown.

"I never heard of Lee Brown; who is this person?"

"I would like to see someone who has the spirit of progressive police work like Lee Brown."

The new director, Lee Brown, has said flatly he doesn't have enough people to carry out his mandate.

And I think the same would be true of Lee Brown, the whole movement toward community policing.

Lee Brown is an outstanding police chief who's been successful in three communities, and he's also a very impressive human being.

Locke left the position when Lee Brown became mayor in 1998.

"But there's a different approach with Lee Brown," he said.

The ultimate result was Lee Brown winning the election.