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ment — whether by the Police Commission or some special blue-ribbon committee. In this, the ADL is representative of
that part of the civic establishment that is
concerned but is holding its fire — for
that matter, the ADL is representative of
the middle third in the latest Times poll,
who require some finding of regular departmental misconduct before they'd approve of dumping Gates. It's a reasonable
enough demand from people who don't
follow the department — who don't
know about the Joe Morgan and Jamaal
Wilkes episodes, about the Dalton Avenue raid and the chokehold deaths,
about a consistent (if tacit) policy of
criminalizing blackness, or about a chief
who has publicly sanctioned brutality (in
the Jesse Larez case) and frequently defamed minority groups. It's a reasonable
enough demand from people indifferent
to the impartial administration of justice.
From an organization like the ADL,
whose mission is to monitor and dispel
bigotry and hate crimes, it is not a reasonable demand at all.
Am,
JLfQk nd what of the City Coun-
^m^^L cil, which is waiting for
A^KtWtmmm\\. l'u election to pass,
A\w^^^WsY all the ADLs and the
business community and the polling to
fall into place before it will even consider
the question of Daryl Gates' — and the
city's — future? But this may be too rosy
an assessment of the council. One council member insists that the votes are not
there even for the mayor's proposed
charter change, which would render department heads accountable to the
mayor and the council, and removable
after five years in office. As the council
sees it, die public supports term limits for
elected officials and lifetime tenure for
chiefs of police.
The crisis of the lAPD comes at a moment when the mayor is weaker and the
council stronger than at any time during
Tom Bradley's 18 years in office. With Bradley weakened by scandal, the council is currently engaged in expanding its own powers over a number of city agencies formerly
controlled by the mayor. Based on the
council's current performance, this is not
a consummation devoutly to be wished.
For all Bradley's reluctance to take on
Daryl Gates in years past (pardy because
the mayor harbored gubernatorial ambitions) , Bradley knows that Los Angeles is
a wounded and dangerous city as long as
Gates remains top cop. The wonder is
that the considerable number of liberals on the City Council — many of
whom marched in civil-rights demonstrations 25 years ago against the very
kind of police practices now on plain
view in L.A. ■— are oblivious to what's
happening here. It may be that the demands of a council career — among
them placing the needs of one's district
over those of the city — enfeeble any
larger political consciousness. It may be
that the absence of any citywide political parties weakens it even more. Whatever the reasons, the Los Angeles City
Council has responded to the Daryl
Gates crisis with an almost total atrophy
of political, historical and moral sense.
As each additional day passes in silence,
the only spectacle the council affords is-
that of Joel Wachs, Joy Picus, Richard
Alatorre, Zev Yaroslavsky, Bob Farrell,
Marvin Braude, Nate Holden and Ruth
Galanter shriveling from moral midgets
to moral dwarfs, Q
Ron Curran and Laureen Lazarovici
helped report this story.
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. 83 |
| 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 | ment — whether by the Police Commission or some special blue-ribbon committee. In this, the ADL is representative of that part of the civic establishment that is concerned but is holding its fire — for that matter, the ADL is representative of the middle third in the latest Times poll, who require some finding of regular departmental misconduct before they'd approve of dumping Gates. It's a reasonable enough demand from people who don't follow the department — who don't know about the Joe Morgan and Jamaal Wilkes episodes, about the Dalton Avenue raid and the chokehold deaths, about a consistent (if tacit) policy of criminalizing blackness, or about a chief who has publicly sanctioned brutality (in the Jesse Larez case) and frequently defamed minority groups. It's a reasonable enough demand from people indifferent to the impartial administration of justice. From an organization like the ADL, whose mission is to monitor and dispel bigotry and hate crimes, it is not a reasonable demand at all. Am, JLfQk nd what of the City Coun- ^m^^L cil, which is waiting for A^KtWtmmm\\. l'u election to pass, A\w^^^WsY all the ADLs and the business community and the polling to fall into place before it will even consider the question of Daryl Gates' — and the city's — future? But this may be too rosy an assessment of the council. One council member insists that the votes are not there even for the mayor's proposed charter change, which would render department heads accountable to the mayor and the council, and removable after five years in office. As the council sees it, die public supports term limits for elected officials and lifetime tenure for chiefs of police. The crisis of the lAPD comes at a moment when the mayor is weaker and the council stronger than at any time during Tom Bradley's 18 years in office. With Bradley weakened by scandal, the council is currently engaged in expanding its own powers over a number of city agencies formerly controlled by the mayor. Based on the council's current performance, this is not a consummation devoutly to be wished. For all Bradley's reluctance to take on Daryl Gates in years past (pardy because the mayor harbored gubernatorial ambitions) , Bradley knows that Los Angeles is a wounded and dangerous city as long as Gates remains top cop. The wonder is that the considerable number of liberals on the City Council — many of whom marched in civil-rights demonstrations 25 years ago against the very kind of police practices now on plain view in L.A. ■— are oblivious to what's happening here. It may be that the demands of a council career — among them placing the needs of one's district over those of the city — enfeeble any larger political consciousness. It may be that the absence of any citywide political parties weakens it even more. Whatever the reasons, the Los Angeles City Council has responded to the Daryl Gates crisis with an almost total atrophy of political, historical and moral sense. As each additional day passes in silence, the only spectacle the council affords is- that of Joel Wachs, Joy Picus, Richard Alatorre, Zev Yaroslavsky, Bob Farrell, Marvin Braude, Nate Holden and Ruth Galanter shriveling from moral midgets to moral dwarfs, Q Ron Curran and Laureen Lazarovici helped report this story. |
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| Archival file | Volume76/indep-box23-07-03~081.tif |
