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Testimony for the christc*>her Commission
May 1, 1*591
1 a»i a forntei los Angeles Police Department sergeant.
1 wa^ forced to resign from the Department in 1988 because
of my sexual orientation. subsequently, I became the first
police officer in the United States to file a lawsuit
against discrimination based on sexual orientation. since
that time, I have been a consultant to a large number of
police agencies and community groups on the subject of
Gay/Lesbian - Police Community Relations,
In my dealings in this area, I have personally
interviewed in excess of 100 homosexual LAPD officers,
former officers, and applicants.
Thy ciiritiiC. duel oi Police has mandated <* policy which
excludes openly homosexual persons from being hired.
Despite a 1979 City ordinance forbidding it, until 1937 the
LAPD asked e.vei y applicant if they had ever engaged in a
homosexual act. Every positive respondent was disqualified.
In 1987 this question was deleted, and every suspected
homosexua.i person was required t<.< taV^. a polygraph test;
whereas heterosexuals were, not so required unless they were
suspected drug abusers. In that year, every openly
homosexual person was disqualified for "drug use."
From 198S urc.il today, the current Chief of Police has
mandated that every applicant to the LAPD must provide the
name, address, and phone number of a member of the opposite
sex they are dating. Anyone who has not .been able to
provide this information has been disqualified for being
"unable to properly complete their background
invest igation."
I have personally met with the current Chief of Police,
He has stated that as long as he remains Chief, he has the
power to, and will continue to, mandate this part of the
background investigation. This is despite it being in
violation of the Municipal Code.
Out of 3,400 police office? :, there is not a sinnle
openly gay officer. An openly gay applicant has never been
hired. The only homosexual applicants that have been hired
are those that hav> been untruthful, and provided the
required information, stating that they are heterosexual,
Additionally, those homosexual officers that have been
discovered after joining the Department have been openly,
constantly, and blatantly harassed. 7. have personally met
almost a dozen such officers who have been forced to resign
solely because it was suspected they were jay.
I have provided this testimony to Roger Coggan of the
Lesbian/Gay Community center; I do so in the hope that the.
Department will one day have a leader who will guide it so
that it truly represents the diversity of the City it
serves.
T swear that this testimony i -i truthful and accurate to
the best of my knowledge.
Mitefcoll Grobeaon, former LAPD sergeant
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. 134 |
| 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 | Testimony for the christc*>her Commission May 1, 1*591 1 a»i a forntei los Angeles Police Department sergeant. 1 wa^ forced to resign from the Department in 1988 because of my sexual orientation. subsequently, I became the first police officer in the United States to file a lawsuit against discrimination based on sexual orientation. since that time, I have been a consultant to a large number of police agencies and community groups on the subject of Gay/Lesbian - Police Community Relations, In my dealings in this area, I have personally interviewed in excess of 100 homosexual LAPD officers, former officers, and applicants. Thy ciiritiiC. duel oi Police has mandated <* policy which excludes openly homosexual persons from being hired. Despite a 1979 City ordinance forbidding it, until 1937 the LAPD asked e.vei y applicant if they had ever engaged in a homosexual act. Every positive respondent was disqualified. In 1987 this question was deleted, and every suspected homosexua.i person was required t<.< taV^. a polygraph test; whereas heterosexuals were, not so required unless they were suspected drug abusers. In that year, every openly homosexual person was disqualified for "drug use." From 198S urc.il today, the current Chief of Police has mandated that every applicant to the LAPD must provide the name, address, and phone number of a member of the opposite sex they are dating. Anyone who has not .been able to provide this information has been disqualified for being "unable to properly complete their background invest igation." I have personally met with the current Chief of Police, He has stated that as long as he remains Chief, he has the power to, and will continue to, mandate this part of the background investigation. This is despite it being in violation of the Municipal Code. Out of 3,400 police office? :, there is not a sinnle openly gay officer. An openly gay applicant has never been hired. The only homosexual applicants that have been hired are those that hav> been untruthful, and provided the required information, stating that they are heterosexual, Additionally, those homosexual officers that have been discovered after joining the Department have been openly, constantly, and blatantly harassed. 7. have personally met almost a dozen such officers who have been forced to resign solely because it was suspected they were jay. I have provided this testimony to Roger Coggan of the Lesbian/Gay Community center; I do so in the hope that the. Department will one day have a leader who will guide it so that it truly represents the diversity of the City it serves. T swear that this testimony i -i truthful and accurate to the best of my knowledge. Mitefcoll Grobeaon, former LAPD sergeant |
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