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Board UrgeS to Limit Police Use of Ram
By PATRICIA KLEJN, Times Staff Writer
Carrying placards and singing "We Shall Overcome," nearly 100 representatives of -Pacoima religious, civil rights and community groups attended the
Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Monday to
ask the panel to limit police use of a motorized
battering ram that was employed against a suspected
drug "rock house."
Jose De Sosa, president of the San Fernando Valley
chapter of the NAACP, also asked the commission to
publicly reprimand Police Chief Daryl F. Gates for "bis
reckless and unreasonable decision" to use the device
' in the Wednesday night raid.
Police Commission President Stephen D. Yslas said
the commission will begin an immediate evaluation of
the "criteria that went into the department's use of this
battering ram" and will "undertake to develop an
appropriate set of criteria for this tank."
The vehicle was used for the first time during the
Pacoima raid, which resulted in two arrests but
reportedly netted only a small amount of drugs. The
only occupants of the home were two women and three-
children. None of them was hurt.
Police officials later said they had been unaware that
there were any children present when they drove the
armored vehicle with a 14-foot battering ram attached
to it into a front room of the house, which police
suspected was a rock house, a fortified dwelling where
drugs are sold.
Gates, who was present at the hearing, was
defensive about the raid, in which he participated.
"All this stuff just gives support to those people who
are in those rock houses," Gates said. "They are going
to say, 'Ho, ho, ho. All those people have come down,
and they've really told the chief, haven't they? He's
not going to use the battering ram . . . because the
community is against those things.' ■
"And quite frankly, community, if you don't want us
to use it, we won't use it. But that means you're going
to have a proliferation of narcotics, and you're going to
have a proliferation of rock houses all over this city
and all over this community. Vou make the choices."
"The entire community is much disturbed," said the
Rev. T. G. Pledger, vice president of the Pacoima
Ministers Assn. "This is a total disgrace lo the human
race.
"We're not here to indulge anybody in narcotics," he
said. "We want to wipe it out too. But we do not want
this deadly weapon . . . in Pacoima" or anywhere else.
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. 257 |
| 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 | Board UrgeS to Limit Police Use of Ram By PATRICIA KLEJN, Times Staff Writer Carrying placards and singing "We Shall Overcome," nearly 100 representatives of -Pacoima religious, civil rights and community groups attended the Los Angeles Police Commission meeting Monday to ask the panel to limit police use of a motorized battering ram that was employed against a suspected drug "rock house." Jose De Sosa, president of the San Fernando Valley chapter of the NAACP, also asked the commission to publicly reprimand Police Chief Daryl F. Gates for "bis reckless and unreasonable decision" to use the device ' in the Wednesday night raid. Police Commission President Stephen D. Yslas said the commission will begin an immediate evaluation of the "criteria that went into the department's use of this battering ram" and will "undertake to develop an appropriate set of criteria for this tank." The vehicle was used for the first time during the Pacoima raid, which resulted in two arrests but reportedly netted only a small amount of drugs. The only occupants of the home were two women and three- children. None of them was hurt. Police officials later said they had been unaware that there were any children present when they drove the armored vehicle with a 14-foot battering ram attached to it into a front room of the house, which police suspected was a rock house, a fortified dwelling where drugs are sold. Gates, who was present at the hearing, was defensive about the raid, in which he participated. "All this stuff just gives support to those people who are in those rock houses," Gates said. "They are going to say, 'Ho, ho, ho. All those people have come down, and they've really told the chief, haven't they? He's not going to use the battering ram . . . because the community is against those things.' ■ "And quite frankly, community, if you don't want us to use it, we won't use it. But that means you're going to have a proliferation of narcotics, and you're going to have a proliferation of rock houses all over this city and all over this community. Vou make the choices." "The entire community is much disturbed," said the Rev. T. G. Pledger, vice president of the Pacoima Ministers Assn. "This is a total disgrace lo the human race. "We're not here to indulge anybody in narcotics," he said. "We want to wipe it out too. But we do not want this deadly weapon . . . in Pacoima" or anywhere else. |
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