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AMERICAN-POLICE-STATE
I suggested that he buy a disk on Puccini's "La Boheme", and get heavily into Italian
Opera. He had all the equipment he needed, but no one ever talked to him about opera before.
When asked how he came to be in this tank, he said, "I was 30-second3 from heavan and 15-mimitea
from jail." Then he desribed the major deasese of the young a need for sex. He said he
had a neighborhood-girl of 18 in his car in Balboa Park, when the Police rattled on his window
and said they had to check him out because he fitted the description of a recent burglar. The
police let the girl go, searched his car thoroughly, and found a 2-year-old traffic ticket
in the glove compartment. Another Prisoner asked him if the girl was White. He said yes,
and the other prisoner said with conviction, that the police would probably break-up any evidence
of black-and-white conjunctions.
Then I caution him about the long years ahead he had with his passions, and I reminded
him of what was said in the opening pages of his beloved "Republic", where Cefalus is relating
to Socrates, "How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the cwt?stion,
How does Jove suit with age. Sophocles, are vou still the man vou were? Peace, he replied,
most Qladlv have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escape 1 rrom &
mad and furious master." My new friend said if that were true then he would be able to pass-
up heaven at that time, but until then, he would not miss a single chance to appease th&t furious
master. A truly rare man of wit, education, and interest, and still less than 30-y^ari* old.
HE WILL DO ALL RIGHT, IF HE CAN STAY OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF THE LAPD, SINCE THIS WAS NOT HIS
FIRST TIME IN JAIL.
Let me tell you a thing which will not surprise you. THE POLICE HAVE LOST THE BATTLE
AGAINST CRIME AND IT HAS LOST THE BATTLE AGAINST DRUGS. They have concentrated on getting
fines and assessments for the city treasury instead so that they can keep their jobs. And
before this investigation by the City-Council is over they will discover the Chief-Gates has
provides almost as much revenue into the city with his traffic tickets as the City Treasurer
has provided by direct assessment, and they may all fall down on their knees and ask forgiveness
for even questioning our high-and-Noble chief.
Now let me tell you why the police have lost those two battles, and you will not want
to hear this, j It is solely because Crime is the ljflfc flPttfc AHUElfflMi Promti»r. If I were 50-
years younger I might chose the path of crime instead of volunteering for WW-II. The challenge,
a sense of comradeship, the lack of regulations, natural leadership, giant profits all
illuminate the Last-American-Frontier for our young. CRIME is the Old-West revived on our
Urban Streets. WHAT HAS THE STRAIGHT-WORLD TO OFFER WHICH CAN COMPARE WITH THE ALLURI iENT
OF CRIME.
THERE WERE TWO DRUG ADDICTS IN OUR TANK. THE FIRST DAY THESE TWO HEROIN ADDICTS REM INED
STILL IN THEIR ! BUNKS. ON THE SECOND DAY OF HANGOVER I ASK ONE OF THEM HOW MANY PUBL.C SI MET
CORNERS WERE THERE IN THE SAN-FERNANDO-VALLEY WHERE DRUGS COULD BE BOUGHT IN THE OPEN. He
said 30 with the certainty of True-Street-Knowledge. When the second man was healtl y ei >ugh
I asked of him the same question, out of hearing of the other, and he gave me the sank? nun, >er.
If the number had been 25, each would have answered with that different number. It was chat
kind of number,
Fernando valley
the accuracy of which is rarely seen in Engineering. Had I a map of the San
no doubt, each could have marked the 30 spots on the map. The police can'it
buy that information,, and I got it freely
Now, what I wont to know is why does the LAPD target-me on a clear day, when there are
at least 30,r-heavy-duty targets for them to hit. You know why. Crime costs the city money.
Tickets bring i|n money to the city. The answer is just that simple. So, there is luore chan
one reason why the criminal will almost always beat the police—-at least for a time, and perhaps
forever, if things get much worse.
AMERICAN-POLICE-STATE
23
Object Description
| Title | American Police State, 1991 Mar.-May |
| Description | Big Trouble for LAPD (American Police State), 1991 March 1 (pp. 1-24) [24 pp.]. ❧ White paper: LAPD certificate of release [1 p.]. ❧ American Police State. Monthly report, "first", 1991 March (pp. [1]-9) [9 pp., 2 copies]. ❧ American Police State. Monthly report, "second", 1991 April (pp. [10]-16) [7 pp.]. ❧ Scorecard of police activity from March 1991 - March 1992, [1991 March] [1 p., 2 copies]. ❧ Scorecard of police activity from March 1991 - March 1992, [1991 April] (p. 41) [1 p.]. ❧ American Police State, 1991 April 4 [1 p., 2 copies]. ❧ American Police State, 1991 April 5 [1 p., 2 copies]. ❧ American Police State, 1991 April 15 [1 p., 2 copies]. ❧ Louis Sahagun "Leader wants Police Union to join Bradley recall move" Los Angeles Times (1991?) [1 p., 2 copies]. ❧ The period of the great American Police State, [1991?] [1 p., 3 copies]. ❧ American Police State distribution list, [1991?] [1 p., 2 copies]. Complaints, suggestions, and support: Includes correspondence and telephone complaints, suggestions and support with regard to the LAPD, Chief Gates and the Independent Commission. 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. |
| Geographic subject | Los Angeles City Hall; Parker Center; Los Angeles Hall of Administration; Los Angeles Criminal Courts Building |
| Geographic subject (roadway) | Strathern Street; Tampa Avenue; 200 North Spring Street; 150 North Los Angeles Street; 500 West Temple Street; 210 West Temple Street |
| Geographic subject (city or populated place) | Los Angeles; Anaheim; Albany; Washington |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles; Orange; Albany; Washington |
| Geographic subject (state) | California; New York; District of Columbia |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Geographic coordinates | 34.215621,-118.553548; 34.053684,-118.242868; 34.052043,-118.240926; 34.056808,-118.246118; 34.055026,-118.243549 |
| Coverage date | 1920/1929; 1991; 1991-03/1992-03; 1991-03-03; 1991-03-19 |
| Creator |
King, Rodney Glen Los Angeles Police Department Associated Press Boyle, Dan Davis, Pat Daily News United Press International Mitchell, John L. Sahagun, Louis |
| Contributor | Howard, recipient |
| Publisher (of the original version) | Los Angeles Times |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991; 1991-03; 1991-03-01; after 1991-03; 1991-04; 1991-04-04; 1991-04-05; 1991-04-15 |
| Date issued | 1991; after 1991-03; 1991-04; 1991-04-04; 1991-04-05; 1991-04-15 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 66 p. |
| Format (aat) |
certificates charts (graphic documents) correspondence editorials lists (document genres) memoirs newsletters |
| 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 24, folder 1, item 1 |
| 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 |
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| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box24-01-01 |
Description
| Title | American Police State, p. 23 |
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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 | AMERICAN-POLICE-STATE I suggested that he buy a disk on Puccini's "La Boheme", and get heavily into Italian Opera. He had all the equipment he needed, but no one ever talked to him about opera before. When asked how he came to be in this tank, he said, "I was 30-second3 from heavan and 15-mimitea from jail." Then he desribed the major deasese of the young a need for sex. He said he had a neighborhood-girl of 18 in his car in Balboa Park, when the Police rattled on his window and said they had to check him out because he fitted the description of a recent burglar. The police let the girl go, searched his car thoroughly, and found a 2-year-old traffic ticket in the glove compartment. Another Prisoner asked him if the girl was White. He said yes, and the other prisoner said with conviction, that the police would probably break-up any evidence of black-and-white conjunctions. Then I caution him about the long years ahead he had with his passions, and I reminded him of what was said in the opening pages of his beloved "Republic", where Cefalus is relating to Socrates, "How well I remember the aged poet Sophocles, when in answer to the cwt?stion, How does Jove suit with age. Sophocles, are vou still the man vou were? Peace, he replied, most Qladlv have I escaped the thing of which you speak; I feel as if I had escape 1 rrom & mad and furious master." My new friend said if that were true then he would be able to pass- up heaven at that time, but until then, he would not miss a single chance to appease th&t furious master. A truly rare man of wit, education, and interest, and still less than 30-y^ari* old. HE WILL DO ALL RIGHT, IF HE CAN STAY OUT OF THE CLUTCHES OF THE LAPD, SINCE THIS WAS NOT HIS FIRST TIME IN JAIL. Let me tell you a thing which will not surprise you. THE POLICE HAVE LOST THE BATTLE AGAINST CRIME AND IT HAS LOST THE BATTLE AGAINST DRUGS. They have concentrated on getting fines and assessments for the city treasury instead so that they can keep their jobs. And before this investigation by the City-Council is over they will discover the Chief-Gates has provides almost as much revenue into the city with his traffic tickets as the City Treasurer has provided by direct assessment, and they may all fall down on their knees and ask forgiveness for even questioning our high-and-Noble chief. Now let me tell you why the police have lost those two battles, and you will not want to hear this, j It is solely because Crime is the ljflfc flPttfc AHUElfflMi Promti»r. If I were 50- years younger I might chose the path of crime instead of volunteering for WW-II. The challenge, a sense of comradeship, the lack of regulations, natural leadership, giant profits all illuminate the Last-American-Frontier for our young. CRIME is the Old-West revived on our Urban Streets. WHAT HAS THE STRAIGHT-WORLD TO OFFER WHICH CAN COMPARE WITH THE ALLURI iENT OF CRIME. THERE WERE TWO DRUG ADDICTS IN OUR TANK. THE FIRST DAY THESE TWO HEROIN ADDICTS REM INED STILL IN THEIR ! BUNKS. ON THE SECOND DAY OF HANGOVER I ASK ONE OF THEM HOW MANY PUBL.C SI MET CORNERS WERE THERE IN THE SAN-FERNANDO-VALLEY WHERE DRUGS COULD BE BOUGHT IN THE OPEN. He said 30 with the certainty of True-Street-Knowledge. When the second man was healtl y ei >ugh I asked of him the same question, out of hearing of the other, and he gave me the sank? nun, >er. If the number had been 25, each would have answered with that different number. It was chat kind of number, Fernando valley the accuracy of which is rarely seen in Engineering. Had I a map of the San no doubt, each could have marked the 30 spots on the map. The police can'it buy that information,, and I got it freely Now, what I wont to know is why does the LAPD target-me on a clear day, when there are at least 30,r-heavy-duty targets for them to hit. You know why. Crime costs the city money. Tickets bring i|n money to the city. The answer is just that simple. So, there is luore chan one reason why the criminal will almost always beat the police—-at least for a time, and perhaps forever, if things get much worse. AMERICAN-POLICE-STATE 23 |
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| Archival file | Volume79/indep-box24-01-01~23.tif |
