Carol Bradley is an investigator with the Los Angeles Police Department's Internal Affairs Division. On 6 January 2002, she took a statement from Hollywood detective Harry Bosch regarding a damaging, unauthorized leak of information to the press. Bosch's tape recorder had a complete recording of his interaction with the reporter in question, and he load the recorder to Bradley. She confirmed that Bosch was not responsible for the leak, but she did not return the recorder to Bosch in a timely manner.