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and words toward our community bespeak contempt and a lack of
respect. Blaming the department's discriminatory failure to promote
Latino officers on the "laziness" of the officers, indicting an
entire ethnic group for the death of an officer, and attributing
choke-hold deaths to some fictional race-based anatomical
differences decry a lack of judgment and a lack of leadership
warranting his replacement.
Through our work with the Latino community and those who
provide services to it, we have witnessed first hand the perception
that the Los Angeles Police Department does not serve our community
well. There appears to be a dual perception in the Latino
community: first, that the police department fails to provide
adequate services to our community, and second, that the police
department treats those individuals who live in high crime areas
as de facto criminals. Charges of underserving or neglecting our
community are not new. The perceptions come from individuals who
have watched their neighborhoods become increasingly crime-ridden
and unsafe. They also comes from community members who most
desperately need police assistance but who are instead subjected to
the indignities of false arrest or outright brutality. The recent
patrols organized by the residents of the Pico-Aliso Housing
Project are a potent image. There, many of the residents felt the
necessity to organize patrols or police monitoring committees—
before the wake of the Rodney King beating—to ensure that the
police department is not brutalizing their children during gang
sweeps in the projects.
The perception also holds true for the immigrant community
Object Description
| 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. 22 |
| 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 | and words toward our community bespeak contempt and a lack of respect. Blaming the department's discriminatory failure to promote Latino officers on the "laziness" of the officers, indicting an entire ethnic group for the death of an officer, and attributing choke-hold deaths to some fictional race-based anatomical differences decry a lack of judgment and a lack of leadership warranting his replacement. Through our work with the Latino community and those who provide services to it, we have witnessed first hand the perception that the Los Angeles Police Department does not serve our community well. There appears to be a dual perception in the Latino community: first, that the police department fails to provide adequate services to our community, and second, that the police department treats those individuals who live in high crime areas as de facto criminals. Charges of underserving or neglecting our community are not new. The perceptions come from individuals who have watched their neighborhoods become increasingly crime-ridden and unsafe. They also comes from community members who most desperately need police assistance but who are instead subjected to the indignities of false arrest or outright brutality. The recent patrols organized by the residents of the Pico-Aliso Housing Project are a potent image. There, many of the residents felt the necessity to organize patrols or police monitoring committees— before the wake of the Rodney King beating—to ensure that the police department is not brutalizing their children during gang sweeps in the projects. The perception also holds true for the immigrant community |
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