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It was during Davis ' second term as chief when New York mobster Bugsy Siegel arrived in Los Angeles.

He eventually went into business with Mickey Cohen, a minor league hood from Chicago who would one day reign as Los Angeles's crime boss.

Both Siegel and Cohen found that the Los Angeles rackets were controlled by " The Combination ", which included the police, who were active in running gambling and vice and were hostile to outside racketeers.

The bombing scandals and the resulting wave of reform instigated by Mayor Bowron likely influenced the Mafia to move its gambling operations from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

However, corruption continued to flourish in Los Angeles.

Another chief, Clemence B. Horrall, was dismissed for that reason in 1949.