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^Q
LAPD WATCH
Latest
Gatesisms
Los Angeles Police Chief
Daryl F. Gates is hardly the
shy, retiring type. Sometimes
that's good, but sometimes the
things he says leave people
shaking their heads and
chalking up another "Gates -
ism." One public proposal
from Gates this week left even
the most unshockable in City
Hall speechless.
Gates suggested that he
personally lead two committees that would be in charge of
implementing the recommendations of the Christopher
Commission, which is reviewing LAPD policies in the wake
of the Rodney King beating.
That struck a lot of people
as at least a touch presumptuous. It might just be that the
chief will not turn out to be
the best person to head up
panels that may be charged
with reforming the Police Department.
In fact, the chief may have
pushed even his staunchest
defenders too far with this
latest attempt to get ahead of
the parade that he once tried
so hard to stop. For he moved
from initially seeking to minimize the impact of the King
beating to now saying he
wants to personally take
charge of the commission recommendations.
But the recommendations
have not yet even been made,
so the chief's suggestion is, at
the very least, premature; in
all likelihood, it's also inappropriate, because it's possible
that the commission may seek
major changes in the way the
department has been run under Gates.
The chief did recoup from
another utterly unnecessary,
self-imposed controversy. Fie
wisely changed his mind and
will allow uniformed officers
to recruit at a local gay pride
festival this weekend.
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. 350 |
| 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 | ^Q LAPD WATCH Latest Gatesisms Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates is hardly the shy, retiring type. Sometimes that's good, but sometimes the things he says leave people shaking their heads and chalking up another "Gates - ism." One public proposal from Gates this week left even the most unshockable in City Hall speechless. Gates suggested that he personally lead two committees that would be in charge of implementing the recommendations of the Christopher Commission, which is reviewing LAPD policies in the wake of the Rodney King beating. That struck a lot of people as at least a touch presumptuous. It might just be that the chief will not turn out to be the best person to head up panels that may be charged with reforming the Police Department. In fact, the chief may have pushed even his staunchest defenders too far with this latest attempt to get ahead of the parade that he once tried so hard to stop. For he moved from initially seeking to minimize the impact of the King beating to now saying he wants to personally take charge of the commission recommendations. But the recommendations have not yet even been made, so the chief's suggestion is, at the very least, premature; in all likelihood, it's also inappropriate, because it's possible that the commission may seek major changes in the way the department has been run under Gates. The chief did recoup from another utterly unnecessary, self-imposed controversy. Fie wisely changed his mind and will allow uniformed officers to recruit at a local gay pride festival this weekend. |
| Filename | indep-box23-09-03~31.tif |
| Archival file | Volume77/indep-box23-09-03~31.tif |
