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required a 363 percent increase in personnel. "If I had 500 offlcera
I wodd go down there and clean lt up in no time," Perker edd, but he
53
refused to take men from other dutlee to euppreaa vice.
Theae matters atood until 1961. Then the atate supreme court
found the city's famoue "reaortlng" ordinance in conflict with etete
law and therefore lnvelid. Under the city lew, police hed only to find
a known prostitute in a room with an dleged cue tome r to gdn e conviction. State law required proof of solicitetion, the peaalng of currency, and other evidence. Perker railed et thia judicldly-creeted
"bill of righta for proetltutee," vhich reaclnded 13 aubaectlone of ths
aunldpd code. The chief, foreseeing an Influx of proetltutee now
that the courts hed destroyed the city's defeneee, bitterly ettacked
"the hedouietic phlloaophy (that) la filling the void erected by the
deetruction of the Victorian culture." Prostitution arreete fell
abruptly, from 4083 in 1960 to 2587 in 1964, and the downward trend
seemed irreversible.
Regardess of occasiond sensationd newspaper accounts and
Parker's fiery attacks on courts and legislatures, vice gradudly
declined as a volatile polltlcd issue. This tradtional socid problem, which hed destroyed many administrations snd police officers,
faded from the public consciousness. In part, this occurred because
the sodety became more tolerant, in part, because vice operations remained covert and rather scarce (perhaps the dty finally became "the
White Spot"); and partly because no evidence of systematic vice protection came to light.
From time to time, small vice squad scandals occurred. Unlike
442
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. 456 |
| 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 | iwiitamn —mmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmm- ■ —i ■ mmmmmmmmm required a 363 percent increase in personnel. "If I had 500 offlcera I wodd go down there and clean lt up in no time," Perker edd, but he 53 refused to take men from other dutlee to euppreaa vice. Theae matters atood until 1961. Then the atate supreme court found the city's famoue "reaortlng" ordinance in conflict with etete law and therefore lnvelid. Under the city lew, police hed only to find a known prostitute in a room with an dleged cue tome r to gdn e conviction. State law required proof of solicitetion, the peaalng of currency, and other evidence. Perker railed et thia judicldly-creeted "bill of righta for proetltutee," vhich reaclnded 13 aubaectlone of ths aunldpd code. The chief, foreseeing an Influx of proetltutee now that the courts hed destroyed the city's defeneee, bitterly ettacked "the hedouietic phlloaophy (that) la filling the void erected by the deetruction of the Victorian culture." Prostitution arreete fell abruptly, from 4083 in 1960 to 2587 in 1964, and the downward trend seemed irreversible. Regardess of occasiond sensationd newspaper accounts and Parker's fiery attacks on courts and legislatures, vice gradudly declined as a volatile polltlcd issue. This tradtional socid problem, which hed destroyed many administrations snd police officers, faded from the public consciousness. In part, this occurred because the sodety became more tolerant, in part, because vice operations remained covert and rather scarce (perhaps the dty finally became "the White Spot"); and partly because no evidence of systematic vice protection came to light. From time to time, small vice squad scandals occurred. Unlike 442 |
| Filename | indep-box21-02-01~093.tif |
| Archival file | Volume65/indep-box21-02-01~093.tif |
