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Victims of Police Misconduct
)ffered a Place to Turn
lit KUINA OSWALD.
Tnm*Stuff Writ, r
Jaime (iuadado wm walking in his, Mid-City
neighboi hood with .1 friend two months ago.
dunking a beer in the early evening, when Los
Angeles police officers in a patrol car pulled up
.behind him "Stop1" they ordered "Put the beer
down "
Cu.iil.itlo. IS. did as he was told, and officers then
ordered the youth to put his hands above his head. He
put one up bui kept the other arm against his body,
holding an unopened bottle of beer under his jacket
with his elbow.
When he turned to face the police, an officer sitting
m a squad car—fearing liuadado might be holding a
weapon — shot the youth twice, wounding him in Ihe
arm
Under lnvrtll|(nllon
Police officials look the shooting under investigation, where it remains, but thai did not satisfy
(iuadadn's mother
She turned for help to the Police Misconduct Lawyer
._Kcfcrrat.Service, which listened lo her complaint and
referred her to attorney Ton) Heck, who vows lo file
suit against police and the city.
In increasing numbers, Southern California!)* are
calling the referral service —the only one of its kind in
the Southland —for assistance.
From their closet-sr/cd office in the Los Angeles
headquarters of American Civil Liberties Union, David
Lynn and Vina Camper, who run the service, advise
people from San Hernardino lo San Fernando of their
legal options when they believe they have been the
victims of police misconduct.
Reside* call-in clients, Ihe service also receives
referrals from ihe ACLU. Public Coimxol nniNhV Stale
liar.
; ftHflL|ifttlutnihiry utUtrvauwa* and investigation*,
Lynn and Camper then decide whether lo refer their
-ehrins tu the .servuv's p;iiirl^f~r>trrcfprntt~lTUvyTr.<r~
The attorneys pay $f)0 annual membership dues and
5*6 of the fees earned from cases referred to them.
The number of requests received by the agency for
assistance has jumped this year, according lo Lynn, the
group's coordinator. In 1987, the organization received
about 100 complaints a month. So far this year, the
group has averaged 170 a month, he said.
'Related lo Gang Sweeps'
"I think it's definitely related to the gang sweeps,"
he said. "It has gotten to the point that if you're Latino
or black and young, you're an open target."
In recent months, the service has increasingly been
contacted by youths who say they were "jacked up" by
police —stopped suddenly by anti-gang officers,
frisked, questioned and sometimes roughed up. Lynn
TBUt—ZZ=Z .: -.". — :
Onie Palmer believes she too is a victim of the gang
sweeps. When she returned to her Dalton Avenue
home in Southwest Los Angeles from a night class
Aug. 1, she found her neatly kept apartment in
shambles.
Earlier in> the evening Southwest Division police
broke into her apartment and three others in a
gang-related drug raid lhat ended with clghl arrests
and the deieniion of 25 youths in the arcd. Only one of
those charged lived in Ihe foui i aided apartments. '" '
Dn her living room floor, sitting on top of broken
furniture, bleach-doused clothes and a shattered
U IC Vl.ilO** WiM liiu acllcll WUl-IUIlL - ...
"I had stuff that belonged lo my grandmother. They
norr^np-^niff-^rnir^^bTnngm-ntt ihe way—from"
Mississippi," she said. Palmer said she fell helpless.
Palmer found Ihe service's number in the telephone
book and called. After inspecting Ihe damage, Camper
and Lyrm referred Palmer to attorney John Burton,
who ha.Tsaid he will file a civil rights suit against the
Los Angeles Polite Department and the city.
But not all the cases referred by the service arc
gang-related. In April, 198G. Los Angeles resident
Arthur Hinford. .'19. was driving on the San Hernardino
Freeway near Baldwin Park when he and an off-duty
LAPD officer became involved in a traffic dispute.
Help in Filling Oul Forms
The officer claimed Hinford cut him off, according to
Hinford's lawyer, Carol Watson, a member of the
referral service's executive committee. The tv*) pulled
to the Hide of the road, and us Hinford stepped out of his
car and approached the officer, he was shot three times
in the chest.
Hinford lived, despite his injuries, and sued the.
deparlmcnt and the city. The case was settled out or
court .wjien the officer's insurance policy and Ihe city
paid HinfOrd $92,500.
The service also helps residents fill out and file the
forms required lo lodge an official complaint with a
police agency's internal affairs office. And because
Object Description
| Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991 |
| Description | Newspaper clippings (Los Angeles Times, L.A. Weekly, Los Angeles Daily News, New York Times, Sentinel) and magazine articles (U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek) documenting Los Angeles Police Department misconduct under Chief Daryl F. Gates, 1978-1991, compiled by Irving Kessler and Lynn F. Kessler. Includes: Introduction, Contents, Excessive force, Rodney King, Mexican nationality, Civil rights, Property, Silence, Discrimination, Accountability, Gates intolerance, Recommendations. 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. |
| Coverage date | 1978/1991 |
| Creator |
Kessler, Irving, compiler Kessler, Lynn F., compiler |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Los Angeles Times; L.A. Weekly; U.S. News & World Report; Los Angeles Daily News; New York Times; Newsweek; Sentinel |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA; Washington, DC, USA; New York, New York, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991 |
| Date issued | 1978/1991 |
| Type |
texts images |
| Format | 368 p. |
| Format (aat) |
clippings (information artifacts) articles summaries |
| 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 | Complaints, suggestions, and support |
| Box and folder | box 23, folders 7-9 |
| 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-box23-07_09 |
Description
| Title | Correspondence: complaints against LAPD, 1978-1991, p. 43 |
| 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 |
Coo Anflclco dimco fajftfi& J~^
Victims of Police Misconduct
)ffered a Place to Turn
lit KUINA OSWALD.
Tnm*Stuff Writ, r
Jaime (iuadado wm walking in his, Mid-City
neighboi hood with .1 friend two months ago.
dunking a beer in the early evening, when Los
Angeles police officers in a patrol car pulled up
.behind him "Stop1" they ordered "Put the beer
down "
Cu.iil.itlo. IS. did as he was told, and officers then
ordered the youth to put his hands above his head. He
put one up bui kept the other arm against his body,
holding an unopened bottle of beer under his jacket
with his elbow.
When he turned to face the police, an officer sitting
m a squad car—fearing liuadado might be holding a
weapon — shot the youth twice, wounding him in Ihe
arm
Under lnvrtll|(nllon
Police officials look the shooting under investigation, where it remains, but thai did not satisfy
(iuadadn's mother
She turned for help to the Police Misconduct Lawyer
._Kcfcrrat.Service, which listened lo her complaint and
referred her to attorney Ton) Heck, who vows lo file
suit against police and the city.
In increasing numbers, Southern California!)* are
calling the referral service —the only one of its kind in
the Southland —for assistance.
From their closet-sr/cd office in the Los Angeles
headquarters of American Civil Liberties Union, David
Lynn and Vina Camper, who run the service, advise
people from San Hernardino lo San Fernando of their
legal options when they believe they have been the
victims of police misconduct.
Reside* call-in clients, Ihe service also receives
referrals from ihe ACLU. Public Coimxol nniNhV Stale
liar.
; ftHflL|ifttlutnihiry utUtrvauwa* and investigation*,
Lynn and Camper then decide whether lo refer their
-ehrins tu the .servuv's p;iiirl^f~r>trrcfprntt~lTUvyTr. |
| Filename | indep-box23-07-03~041.tif |
| Archival file | Volume76/indep-box23-07-03~041.tif |
