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CITY HALL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90012 ( 213) 485-3311 OFFICE OF THE MAYOR TOM BRADLEY MAYOR THE CHARGE BY MAYOR TOM BRADLEY TO THE SPECIAL INDEPENDENT COMMISSION TO REVIEW THE STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, WITH THE COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE OF THE LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE The Los Angeles Police Department is facing a crisis of confidence. It has become the focus of national attention. The District Attorney has brought indictments against four LAPD officers, including a supervising sergeant. We can expect a series of investigations from other governmental sources, including the U.S. Department of Justice, various Congressional committees, and other state and local agencies. The media interest is unprecedented. I remain confident in the ability and integrity of the large majority of men and women of LAPD who are out on the streets daily, doing the tough, dirty, and dangerous business of fighting crime. I intend to support our pol ice department to the fullest . I was a police officer for twenty-one years, and I feel for the thousands of honorable men and women of the I.APO. They have watched helplessly in recent weeks as the "AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER" Charge to the Special Independent commission Page Two April 1, 1991 LAPD's fine reputation has been damaged. My top priority is to restore the public's confidence in the cop on the street. Nonetheless, we all know -- and the Rodney King beating has been a shocking and tragic reminder -- that we have problems in the department. These problems can and must be corrected. The time has come for a reasoned, objective, thorough and constructive examination of the structure and operation of our Police Department. How can we improve it: how can we . correct its faults; how can we increase its service, its efficiency, its fairness; how can we make it a model for the next century? All of us can unite in working toward this goal. We want the best possible Police Department, the finest in the nation. That has been our objective, and that is what we demand for the future. I am not willing to leave this inquiry to others. To that end, I am today appointing a special Independent Commission, to be chaired by Warren Christopher and charged with the responsibility of conducting a full and fair examination of the structure and operation of the LAPD. Because I want it to reflect the views of all those interested in the crucial issues it will examine, I have appointed seven members representing the widest possible spectrum of interests. They are: Warren Christopher, a former Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Secretary of State now serving as chairman of O'Melveny & Myers law firm, who also served as vice chairman of the McCone Commission that investigated the 1965 Watts Riots; Roy Anderson, chairman emeritus, Lockheed Corporation and a member of the board of trustees of Stanford University; Leo F. Estrada, associate professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, who served as a principal advisor during the recent redistricting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' districts; Mickey Kantor, a partner of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips law firm since 1975, who is also a member of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, California Commission on campaign Financing, and the American Jewish Committee; Andrea Sheridan Ordin, a former United States Attorney and chief assistant Attorney General for the State of California, now chief of litigation at the Los Angeles law firm of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz;
Object Description
Title | Commission meetings: Mayor Bradley appoints Independent Commission, 1991-04-01 |
Description | Commission meetings: Mayor Bradley appoints Independent Commission, 1991 April 1. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system. |
Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
Date issued | 1991-04-01 |
Type | texts |
Format | 23 p. |
Format (aat) |
biographies (documents) commissions (orders for work) membership lists press releases résumés (personnel records) resumes (personnel records) vitas (biographies) |
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 | Independent Commission File List |
File | Commission meetings: Mayor Bradley appoints Independent Commission |
Box and folder | box 21, folder 35 |
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-box21-35 |
Description
Title | Charge... to Independent Commission [on]... the LAPD, 1991-04-01 |
Description | The charge by Mayor Tom Bradley to the Special Independent Commission to review the structure and operation of the Los Angeles Police Department, with the cooperation and assistance of the Los Angeles District Attorney's Office, 1991 April 1. |
Creator | Bradley, Tom |
Date issued | 1991-04-01 |
Type | texts |
Format | 2 p. |
Format (aat) | commissions (orders for work) |
Format (imt) | application/pdf |
Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
Series | Independent Commission File List |
File | Commission meetings: Mayor Bradley appoints Independent Commission |
Box and folder | box 21, folder 35, item 2 |
Physical access | Contact: Special Collections, Doheny Memorial Library, Libraries, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189; specol@dots.usc.edu |
Full text | CITY HALL LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90012 ( 213) 485-3311 OFFICE OF THE MAYOR TOM BRADLEY MAYOR THE CHARGE BY MAYOR TOM BRADLEY TO THE SPECIAL INDEPENDENT COMMISSION TO REVIEW THE STRUCTURE AND OPERATION OF THE LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT, WITH THE COOPERATION AND ASSISTANCE OF THE LOS ANGELES DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE The Los Angeles Police Department is facing a crisis of confidence. It has become the focus of national attention. The District Attorney has brought indictments against four LAPD officers, including a supervising sergeant. We can expect a series of investigations from other governmental sources, including the U.S. Department of Justice, various Congressional committees, and other state and local agencies. The media interest is unprecedented. I remain confident in the ability and integrity of the large majority of men and women of LAPD who are out on the streets daily, doing the tough, dirty, and dangerous business of fighting crime. I intend to support our pol ice department to the fullest . I was a police officer for twenty-one years, and I feel for the thousands of honorable men and women of the I.APO. They have watched helplessly in recent weeks as the "AN EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY-AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER" Charge to the Special Independent commission Page Two April 1, 1991 LAPD's fine reputation has been damaged. My top priority is to restore the public's confidence in the cop on the street. Nonetheless, we all know -- and the Rodney King beating has been a shocking and tragic reminder -- that we have problems in the department. These problems can and must be corrected. The time has come for a reasoned, objective, thorough and constructive examination of the structure and operation of our Police Department. How can we improve it: how can we . correct its faults; how can we increase its service, its efficiency, its fairness; how can we make it a model for the next century? All of us can unite in working toward this goal. We want the best possible Police Department, the finest in the nation. That has been our objective, and that is what we demand for the future. I am not willing to leave this inquiry to others. To that end, I am today appointing a special Independent Commission, to be chaired by Warren Christopher and charged with the responsibility of conducting a full and fair examination of the structure and operation of the LAPD. Because I want it to reflect the views of all those interested in the crucial issues it will examine, I have appointed seven members representing the widest possible spectrum of interests. They are: Warren Christopher, a former Deputy Attorney General and Deputy Secretary of State now serving as chairman of O'Melveny & Myers law firm, who also served as vice chairman of the McCone Commission that investigated the 1965 Watts Riots; Roy Anderson, chairman emeritus, Lockheed Corporation and a member of the board of trustees of Stanford University; Leo F. Estrada, associate professor at the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA, who served as a principal advisor during the recent redistricting of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' districts; Mickey Kantor, a partner of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips law firm since 1975, who is also a member of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, California Commission on campaign Financing, and the American Jewish Committee; Andrea Sheridan Ordin, a former United States Attorney and chief assistant Attorney General for the State of California, now chief of litigation at the Los Angeles law firm of Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz; |
Filename | indep-box21-35-02.pdf |
Archival file | Volume67/indep-box21-35-02.pdf |