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INFORMATION REQUESTED FROM
LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT BY
INDEPENDENT COMMISSION
Request Date: April 22, 1991
The time period covered by these requests is January 1,
1986 to the present, unless otherwise indicated .
1. A list of all current and former Chiefs of Police,
Assistant Chiefs, and Deputy Chiefs, including current addresses
and telephone numbers, for the period 1960 to the present.
(Deputy General Counsel Ernest Getto)
2. Any list or index prepared by the Information
Resources Division or otherwise available to the LAPD of
statistical reports or summaries pertaining to the operation or
structure of the LAPD. (Deputy General Counsel Ernest Getto)
3. Any reports describing the ethnic and/or racial
breakdown of officers by LAPD Division and/or the number of
officers assigned to each Division; any reports describing the
ethnic and/or racial breakdown of the population served by each
Division. (Deputy General Counsel Barbara Kelley)
4. Printouts of computer records of all communications
referred to as "Mobile Digital Transmissions" for the month
ending March 3, 1991, and for the month following March 3, 1991.
(Deputy General Counsel Barbara Kelley)
5 . All standardized psychological or psychiatric tests
(and model responses) given to applicants for entry into the
Academy; all validation studies relating to any written or oral
test given to any Academy applicant; and any reports or analyses
of such tests or studies. (Deputy General Counsel Louise
LaMothe)
6. Documents reflecting Police Academy training of
recruits relating to use of force, community relations, self­defense,
reporting of violations of LAPD policy by fellow
officers, and discharge of firearms; all materials given to
entering Academy students; documents describing the Academy
curriculum; a list of all Academy instructors. (Deputy General
Counsel Louise LaMothe)
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7. Documents relating to the selection, assignment,
and instruction of training officers; personnel files of all
training officers presently assigned to the Foothill, Devonshire,
77th and West Los Angel es Divisions. {Deputy General Counsel
Louise LaMothe)
8. A list of all officers who completed their trainee
or probationary term of service in the Foothill Division of LAPD
during the period January l, 1989 to January 1, 1991 including
current addresses, telephone numbers, and assignments. {Deputy
General counsel Louise LaMothe)
9. Any Memorandum of Understanding or other agreement
between the LAPD and the Police and Fire Protective League
relating to personnel policies or procedures. ( Deputy General
Counsel Thomas Holliday)
10 . All LAPD policies and procedures relating to
recruitment , hiring, promotion, training, a ssignment {including
"Memorandum No. 4 " concerning assignment of officers), and stress
disability . {Deputy General Counsel Thomas Holliday)
11. Personnel files and records for all officers
promoted to sergeant or to lieutenant during the period January
1, 1988 to January l, 1991 . {Deputy General Counsel Thomas
Holliday)
12. All personnel files and records for any LAPD
employee who has received a sustained personnel complaint or
disciplinary sanction involving allegations of use of force or
racial or sexual harassment or verbal abuse, or who has resigned
or retired for any reason during the pendency of any s uch
disciplinary or personnel investigation or action, f or the period
January 1, 1981 to the present. (Deputy General Counsel Thomas
Holliday)
13 . All Use of Force Reports and all statistical
compilations, summaries and computerized records relating to
those reports; any documents summarizing or analyzing the Use o f
Force Board proceedings; any documents summarizing or analyzing
the use of canines or tasers; any documents analyzing or
recommending methods to reduce or minimize any excessive use of
force by LAPD employees. {Deputy General counsel Gary Feess)
14. All Form 181 personnel complaints relating to
allegations of use of force, racial or sex~al harassment , or
verbal abuse; all documents analyzing Form 181 personnel
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complaints, sustained complaints, and results of Internal Affairs
Division investigations, including documents analyzing data by
Division or by Bureau on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis.
(Deputy General Counsel Gary Feess)
15. Records of any LAPD disciplinary or other
investigations, any Form 181 personnel complaints, or any Use of
Force Reports in connection with any of the 103 cases of non­traf
f ic related police litigation identified in the Report of the
Chief Legislative Analyst dated March 25, 1991 entitled "Analysis
of Police Liability Claims (1986-1990) in Relation to LAPD
Internal Affairs Division Investigations and Discipline."
(Deputy General Counsel Ernest Getto)
16. All documents describing any program of treatment
or counselling offered by the LAPD to its employees relating to
psychological counselling (or similar programs); ~u mmaries or
compilations relating to any such program. (Deputy General
counsel Ernest Getto)
17. All records relating to the personnel history,
conduct, and investigation of the officers present at the scene
of the use of force against Rodney Glen King on March 3, 1991
("the incident~), including but not limited to all personnel
records and records relating to the training of those officers;
all Internal Affairs Division reports or other LAPD internal
memoranda regarding the incident; all records relating to
communications on March 3, 1991 from or to any LAPD employee
concerning the incident, including transcripts of any audio and
MDT or other computer communications; copies of all videotapes of
any portion of the incident or events immediately before or after
the incident. (Deputy General Counsel Percy Anderson)
18. All memoranda, reports, personnel records, Use of
Force Reports, Form 181 personnel complaints, and Internal
Affairs Division or other LAPD investigations pertaining to
former LAPD officer Robert Brodowy, including records relating to
his retirement, pension, or other employment benefits. (Deputy
General Counsel Percy Anderson)
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