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and all things like that. There's a minimum
of 15 minutes and usually as much as 20 on a
daily basis that could be used very
effectively. _
Christopher: Don't you think there was a failure on the
part of the 3 officers who were involved
other than the sergeant?
Bostic: In that incident? You know, I've thought
about that thing and obviously I've watched
the tape every day, because it's always on
the news somewhere. It was in Canada we saw
it, as a matter of fact, last week. No.
Here•s exactly how I feel this went on and I
don't know who would agree with me, but first
of all, when a sergeant's there and in
charge, everyone is watching that sergeant.
That's the natural course of things. They're
waiting for the sergeant to say what to do
next. In this case it looked like he didn't
tell them to do anything. He was more
concerned about tethering the wires to make
sure that the darts didn't come out of Rodney
King. The sergeant was exercising no supervision at the scene from watching those
tapes. None whatsoever. He was just another
player in a group of players. In the
leadership role, if you don't lead, people
don't follow, and people under that kind of
stress don't naturally take the lead. They
look to the person who is under the responsibility. I've talked to several behavioral
psychologists as part of this study, who have
watched that tape with me, and what they
specifically said was that, "Hey, you can
train until you're blue in the face, but if
the person wearing the stripes doesn't take
charge, nobody else is going to do it under
those kinds of situations because everyone in
that group looks to the person who's in
charge, and if he gives no leadership, they
just continue doing what they're doing
because they believe psychologically that's
what they want them to do."
?: But assume for the moment that there was just
no sergeant there, because, and the three
other officers had done what they've done.
Would you see a problem with their behavior?
Bostic: Absolutely, because then the training officer
would have been the one the troops would have
19 06/08/91
Object Description
| Title | Independent Commission, hearing transcript, 1991-06-06 |
| Description | Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department transcript of hearing in which those interviewed were Tom Bradley, Michael J. Bostic, Ernest Curtsinger, James Kenneth Hahn and John Sherrell, 1991 June 6. PART OF: Commission meetings, 1991 June 6. 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. |
| Subject (personal name) | Bradley, Tom; Bostic, Michael J.; Curtsinger, Ernest; Hahn, James Kenneth, 1950- ; Sherrell, John |
| Creator |
Kathy, interviewer Anderson, Roy, interviewer Arguelles, John, interviewer Christopher, Warren, interviewer Estrada, Leo F., interviewer Getto, Ernie, interviewer Kantor, Mickey, interviewer Mosk, Richard M., interviewer Ordin, Andrea Sheridan, interviewer Reiner, Mr., interviewer Slaughter, John Brooks, interviewer Tranquada, Robert E., interviewer |
| Contributor |
Bradley, Tom, interviewee Bostic, Michael J., interviewee Curtsinger, Ernest, interviewee Hahn, James Kenneth, 1950- , interviewee Sherrell, John, interviewee |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991-06-05 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 154 p. |
| Format (aat) | hearings (event) |
| 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 |
| Box and folder | box 22, folder 13, item 5 |
| Provenance | The collection was given to the University of Southern California on July 31, 1991. |
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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 |
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Description
| Title | Independent Commission, hearing transcript, 1991-06-06, p. 19 |
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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 | and all things like that. There's a minimum of 15 minutes and usually as much as 20 on a daily basis that could be used very effectively. _ Christopher: Don't you think there was a failure on the part of the 3 officers who were involved other than the sergeant? Bostic: In that incident? You know, I've thought about that thing and obviously I've watched the tape every day, because it's always on the news somewhere. It was in Canada we saw it, as a matter of fact, last week. No. Here•s exactly how I feel this went on and I don't know who would agree with me, but first of all, when a sergeant's there and in charge, everyone is watching that sergeant. That's the natural course of things. They're waiting for the sergeant to say what to do next. In this case it looked like he didn't tell them to do anything. He was more concerned about tethering the wires to make sure that the darts didn't come out of Rodney King. The sergeant was exercising no supervision at the scene from watching those tapes. None whatsoever. He was just another player in a group of players. In the leadership role, if you don't lead, people don't follow, and people under that kind of stress don't naturally take the lead. They look to the person who is under the responsibility. I've talked to several behavioral psychologists as part of this study, who have watched that tape with me, and what they specifically said was that, "Hey, you can train until you're blue in the face, but if the person wearing the stripes doesn't take charge, nobody else is going to do it under those kinds of situations because everyone in that group looks to the person who's in charge, and if he gives no leadership, they just continue doing what they're doing because they believe psychologically that's what they want them to do." ?: But assume for the moment that there was just no sergeant there, because, and the three other officers had done what they've done. Would you see a problem with their behavior? Bostic: Absolutely, because then the training officer would have been the one the troops would have 19 06/08/91 |
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