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1
The emphaaia on apeed waa part of a generd campdgn in which
the crime commission played an important role. The acanddoue condition
of the jails waa mainly due to overcrowding of prisoners in ancient
fadlitlee. Moreover, a good percentage of the men were technicdly
innocent persons swdtlng trial. Tha crime comdaalon'a study of tha
eourta ahowed that the everege case hsd a life of 110 days from arrest
to final dapoeition. The commiaalon asked that 30 daya.be the maximum.
Five dvisions of the superior court were set aside for en experiment.
Only cridnd caaea wodd be tried by the 5 judgee, who bound themselves
to resolve dl ceees within 30 days. The plan, if not entirely successful, wee s greet Improvement, snd severd more divisions vere reserved.
In March the crime commiaalon report showed the overage ceae life to be
58.2 days. A reduction of 25 percent in continuances dso vas reported.
Thus, if justice delayed vere justice denied, greater justice
vaa now depensed by the Los Angeles courts, although the first dm wss
to decrease the jdl popdation. The police reduced congestion by releasing 300 convicted vagrants and lesser dscreants. The dstrlct attorney cooperated by freeing dl dnor offenders who had been held 30
to 60 days without trid. Vollmer argued that immediate action waa
necessary because the jdl popdation wodd have doubled by the time the
new county jdl was ready. He succeeded in extracting $50,000 from the
dty council, with which four barrack-style dormitories were constructed,
relieving 500 men from the Lincoln Heights stockade. In addition, the
partidly bdlt two-story annex to the jdl, unfinished for two years,
vaa rushed to completion, providng adequate quarters for another 250
prisoners. The county accepted 100 city prisoners at its rurd facility.
168
Object Description
| Title | The progressives and the police, 1973 |
| Description | Joseph Gerald Woods. The progressives and the police: urban reformers and the professionalization of the Los Angeles police. University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., history), 1973. Published by University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA), 1982. PART OF A SERIES: A critical component of the Commission's investigation centered on the idea that governance of the LAPD was shared between the Office of the Chief of Police, an administrative body, and the Board of Police Commissioners, a citizen body. To better understand the dynamic between these two entities, the staff of Heller, Ehrman, White, & McAuliffe researched the history of the Los Angeles City Charter, focusing primarily on its provisions regarding the distribution of power and the structure and organization of the LAPD. Included in the series are reproductions of reports, dissertations, article clippings, excerpts from city documents, and charter amendments related to the charter's conception and development over time. The series also includes several summaries of expert witness interviews regarding the effectiveness of this structure. |
| Creator | Woods, Joseph Gerald, 1930- |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of California, Los Angeles; University Microfilms |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA; Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1973; 1982 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 669 p. |
| Format (aat) |
doctoral dissertations catalog cards |
| Format (imt) | application/pdf |
| Language | English |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Part of collection | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department, 1991 |
| Series | Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe |
| File | The progressives and the police: urban reformers and the professionalization of the Los Angeles police, by Joseph Gerard Woods, 1973 |
| Box and folder | box 20, folder 24; box 21, folders 1-3 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
| Rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained. |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box20-24 |
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| Title | The progressives and the police, 1973, p. 182 |
| Format (imt) | image/tiff |
| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | 1 The emphaaia on apeed waa part of a generd campdgn in which the crime commission played an important role. The acanddoue condition of the jails waa mainly due to overcrowding of prisoners in ancient fadlitlee. Moreover, a good percentage of the men were technicdly innocent persons swdtlng trial. Tha crime comdaalon'a study of tha eourta ahowed that the everege case hsd a life of 110 days from arrest to final dapoeition. The commiaalon asked that 30 daya.be the maximum. Five dvisions of the superior court were set aside for en experiment. Only cridnd caaea wodd be tried by the 5 judgee, who bound themselves to resolve dl ceees within 30 days. The plan, if not entirely successful, wee s greet Improvement, snd severd more divisions vere reserved. In March the crime commiaalon report showed the overage ceae life to be 58.2 days. A reduction of 25 percent in continuances dso vas reported. Thus, if justice delayed vere justice denied, greater justice vaa now depensed by the Los Angeles courts, although the first dm wss to decrease the jdl popdation. The police reduced congestion by releasing 300 convicted vagrants and lesser dscreants. The dstrlct attorney cooperated by freeing dl dnor offenders who had been held 30 to 60 days without trid. Vollmer argued that immediate action waa necessary because the jdl popdation wodd have doubled by the time the new county jdl was ready. He succeeded in extracting $50,000 from the dty council, with which four barrack-style dormitories were constructed, relieving 500 men from the Lincoln Heights stockade. In addition, the partidly bdlt two-story annex to the jdl, unfinished for two years, vaa rushed to completion, providng adequate quarters for another 250 prisoners. The county accepted 100 city prisoners at its rurd facility. 168 |
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