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85
City Attorney for an opinion. He ruled in the affirmative
in both instances.
The charter gives to the Board of Police
Commissioners very extensive powers with respect
to the supervision and management of the Police
Department. These powers bear directly upon the
safety and welfare of the public and require the
exercise of a grave public concern.
Plainly, the board can properly exercise judgment only when it is adequately informed as to the
material facts involved.1
This viewpoint has become accepted for all departments today with the result that they have little difficulty in
securing funds to make outside investigations of the department where the board feels conditions warrant such action.
Questions on personnel control in the Police Department have led to additional clarification. In late 1952
the Police Board asked the City Attorney to rule on its
authority to compel members of the department to furnish
detailed statements of their income and assets. In his
answer the City Attorney pointed out:
The City Charter clearly vests a broad rulemaking power in the Board of Police Commissioners.
The board is necessarily vested with a large
measure of discretion in determining what rules
are necessary and desirable for the proper conduct
and management of the department.
The opinion also said that the powers of the board are sufficient to enable it to accomplish all that any department
2
head in any American city would want to accomplish.
1City Attorney, Jan. 25, 1943.
2Ibid., Nov. 7, 1952.
Object Description
| Title | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter, 1830-1966 (2b of 3) |
| Description | Marvin Abrahams. Functioning of boards and commissions in the Los Angeles city government. Los Angeles, California: University of California, Los Angeles (Ph.D., Political science), 1967. 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. |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1830; 1835; 1844; 1850/1863; 1869; 1870/1890; 1898; 1900/1908; 1910/1934; 1937/1966 |
| Creator | Abrahams, Marvin |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of California, Los Angeles |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date issued | 1967 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 146 p. |
| Format (aat) | doctoral dissertations |
| 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 | Legal research regarding the history of the Los Angeles charter |
| Box and folder | box 21, folder 5, item 2 |
| 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-box21-05-02 |
Description
| Title | Functioning of boards & commissions in LA, p. 87 |
| 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 | 85 City Attorney for an opinion. He ruled in the affirmative in both instances. The charter gives to the Board of Police Commissioners very extensive powers with respect to the supervision and management of the Police Department. These powers bear directly upon the safety and welfare of the public and require the exercise of a grave public concern. Plainly, the board can properly exercise judgment only when it is adequately informed as to the material facts involved.1 This viewpoint has become accepted for all departments today with the result that they have little difficulty in securing funds to make outside investigations of the department where the board feels conditions warrant such action. Questions on personnel control in the Police Department have led to additional clarification. In late 1952 the Police Board asked the City Attorney to rule on its authority to compel members of the department to furnish detailed statements of their income and assets. In his answer the City Attorney pointed out: The City Charter clearly vests a broad rulemaking power in the Board of Police Commissioners. The board is necessarily vested with a large measure of discretion in determining what rules are necessary and desirable for the proper conduct and management of the department. The opinion also said that the powers of the board are sufficient to enable it to accomplish all that any department 2 head in any American city would want to accomplish. 1City Attorney, Jan. 25, 1943. 2Ibid., Nov. 7, 1952. |
| Filename | indep-box21-05-02~087.tif |
| Archival file | Volume67/indep-box21-05-02~087.tif |
