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African-American, Latino, and women officers in accordance with
the 1980 Blake consent decree, Asian Pacifies were excluded from
that order and consequently remain at dismally low levels. Given
the phenomenal growth in the Asian Pacific population, the city
must take prompt, major steps toward increasing the number of
Asian Pacifies in the Department.
The need for more Asian Pacific American police officers
is critical, for the LAPD simply cannot effectively serve the
Asian Pacific communities without reflecting in its ranks those
whom it serves. Asian Pacific officers can provide much needed
language skills and a heightened degree of cultural sensitivity;
they may be able more easily to forge crucial links with the
Asian Pacific communities, and they may serve as valuable role
models. Moreover, because of the high public visibility of
police officers, a department that is representative of the
population sends a message to all citizens that racial diversity,
tolerance, and cooperation must be at the very core of life in
Los Angeles. The diversity of its citizens is one of this city's
great assets and deserves to be reflected in all of its
endeavors.
We acknowledge the city's voluntarily adopted goal of 7
percent Asian Pacific representation in the LAPD by the year
2000.5 But while we encourage the city to continue to pursue
this goal, it obviously falls far short of both the present and
anticipated numbers of Asian Pacifies in the city. We thus urge
the city to adopt a 15 percent goal by the year 2000, for there
5. Letter from Daryl F. Gates to Stewart Kwoh, Sept. 27, 1990.
-3-
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| Title | Written statements submitted by witnesses scheduled to speak at the May 1, 1991 public meeting of the Independent Commission of the LAPD |
| Description | Written statements submitted by witnesses scheduled to speak at the May 1, 1991 public meeting of the Independent Commission of the LAPD: ❧ Section 1: Statement of Stewart Kwoh, executive director of Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California (APALC) ❧ Section 2: Testimony of Vibiana Andrade, regional counsel of Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) ❧ Section 2: Exhibit A - letter - from: Antonia Hernandez, MALDEF president and general counsel ❧ Section 2: Exhibit B - MALDEF Annual Report, 1989-90 ❧ Section 3: Summary of testimony of R. Samuel Paz on behalf of the Mexican American Bar Association of the LA County ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 1 - Superior Court of the State of California for the County of LA, Adelaido Altamirano v. The City of Los Angeles, et al. (deposition of Lt. William D. Hall) ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 2 - Superior Court of the State of California for the County of LA, Adelaido Altamirano v. The City of Los Angeles, et al. (deposition of Det. Jerry L. Mount) ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 3 - Investigation of officer-involved shootings ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 4 - R. Samuel Paz - resume ❧ Section 3: Exhibit 5 - Newspaper Clippings ❧ Section 4: Testimony of Citizens in Support of the Chief of Police (CISCOP) ❧ Section 5: Summary of testimony of Roger Coggan, esq., director, legal services department, Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Services Center ❧ Section 5: attachment 1 - Superior Court of the State of California for the County of LA, Mitchels Grobeson, et al. v. The City of Los Angeles, et al. (deposition of Kenneth G. Bickman) ❧ Section 5: attachment 2 - letter - from: Roger Coggan, director, legal services, LA Gay and Lesbian Community; to: Ira Reiner, LA County district attorney, and James Hahn, LA city attorney ❧ Section 5: attachment 3 - Article - "How bad are relations between gays and the LAPD?" ❧ Section 5: attachment 4 - "Declaration of Thomas J. Coleman, Jr." ❧ Section 5: attachment 5 - "Testimony of Christopher Commission" ❧ Section 6: "Report to Independent Commission" by Louis A. Custrini, vice-president-communications, Merchants and Manufacturers Association ❧ Index. 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 | 1991-05-01 |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California |
| Date created | 1991-05-01 |
| Type | texts |
| Format | 141 p. |
| Format (aat) | presentations (communicative events) |
| 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 | Public Sessions |
| Box and folder | box 24, folder 25, 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 |
| Repository name | USC Libraries Special Collections |
| Repository address | Doheny Memorial Library, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0189 |
| Repository email | specol@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | indep-box24-25-01 |
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| Title | Written statements submitted by witnesses scheduled to speak, p. 7 |
| 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 | African-American, Latino, and women officers in accordance with the 1980 Blake consent decree, Asian Pacifies were excluded from that order and consequently remain at dismally low levels. Given the phenomenal growth in the Asian Pacific population, the city must take prompt, major steps toward increasing the number of Asian Pacifies in the Department. The need for more Asian Pacific American police officers is critical, for the LAPD simply cannot effectively serve the Asian Pacific communities without reflecting in its ranks those whom it serves. Asian Pacific officers can provide much needed language skills and a heightened degree of cultural sensitivity; they may be able more easily to forge crucial links with the Asian Pacific communities, and they may serve as valuable role models. Moreover, because of the high public visibility of police officers, a department that is representative of the population sends a message to all citizens that racial diversity, tolerance, and cooperation must be at the very core of life in Los Angeles. The diversity of its citizens is one of this city's great assets and deserves to be reflected in all of its endeavors. We acknowledge the city's voluntarily adopted goal of 7 percent Asian Pacific representation in the LAPD by the year 2000.5 But while we encourage the city to continue to pursue this goal, it obviously falls far short of both the present and anticipated numbers of Asian Pacifies in the city. We thus urge the city to adopt a 15 percent goal by the year 2000, for there 5. Letter from Daryl F. Gates to Stewart Kwoh, Sept. 27, 1990. -3- |
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| Archival file | Volume79/indep-box24-25-02~04.tif |
