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a CORE statement thet the LAPD recrdted mdnly from the U. S. South.
Only 13 percent of new offlcera during the period 1960-1963 were
souths me re, he reveded. (The overall percentege of white southerners
on tha force remdned secret, but waa in excess of the 4 percent bleck.)
Verbd, and occaelondly phyaicel, confronrations between bleck dli-
tante and police occurred but, though tragic race riota destroyed life
and property in other American cities that summer, Chief Perker averred
flatly that "it can't happen here."131
In 1965, U. S. Congreeeman Jamee Rooeevelt, then e liberal,
received encouragement from liberd Democrats and ran ogelnet hia fellow, but conaervatlve Democrat, Mayor Sam Torty. Mayo'r Torty, utilising the "eaetern gangstera" theme yet again, wondered where the "outside" money came from to fuel the Roosevelt "machine." The mayor mentioned many attempts over the yeere to get the underworld rackets back
in. Chief Perker apoke et Torty ralllee, asserting that Yorty interfered leee in police affairs than any previous mayor. He also accused
Rooeevelt of injecting the LAPD into the campdgn* Roosevelt, in turn,
implied thst Parker's "despicable" actions had some relation to corrupt
132
dealings between the mayor and chief.
Race, or dvil rights, provided the real issue. In March,
of fields prepared a charter amendment which reduced certain city com-
mlsaioners from executive to advisory positions, and made the generd
manager drectly responsible to the mayor. The generd manager vodd
be eppointed or dismissed by the mayor, vlth the council's approvd.
The original amendment included the police department, but council
hers removed it. Councilman Thomas Bradley, a black former police
478
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. 492 |
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| Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | r~ - "7F= -—- "^•""*'-1^- ..iiM....n...i<.T. ..^ e e a CORE statement thet the LAPD recrdted mdnly from the U. S. South. Only 13 percent of new offlcera during the period 1960-1963 were souths me re, he reveded. (The overall percentege of white southerners on tha force remdned secret, but waa in excess of the 4 percent bleck.) Verbd, and occaelondly phyaicel, confronrations between bleck dli- tante and police occurred but, though tragic race riota destroyed life and property in other American cities that summer, Chief Perker averred flatly that "it can't happen here."131 In 1965, U. S. Congreeeman Jamee Rooeevelt, then e liberal, received encouragement from liberd Democrats and ran ogelnet hia fellow, but conaervatlve Democrat, Mayor Sam Torty. Mayo'r Torty, utilising the "eaetern gangstera" theme yet again, wondered where the "outside" money came from to fuel the Roosevelt "machine." The mayor mentioned many attempts over the yeere to get the underworld rackets back in. Chief Perker apoke et Torty ralllee, asserting that Yorty interfered leee in police affairs than any previous mayor. He also accused Rooeevelt of injecting the LAPD into the campdgn* Roosevelt, in turn, implied thst Parker's "despicable" actions had some relation to corrupt 132 dealings between the mayor and chief. Race, or dvil rights, provided the real issue. In March, of fields prepared a charter amendment which reduced certain city com- mlsaioners from executive to advisory positions, and made the generd manager drectly responsible to the mayor. The generd manager vodd be eppointed or dismissed by the mayor, vlth the council's approvd. The original amendment included the police department, but council hers removed it. Councilman Thomas Bradley, a black former police 478 |
| Filename | indep-box21-02-01~129.tif |
| Archival file | Volume65/indep-box21-02-01~129.tif |
