Proposed study report outline, 1992-09-03

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Content ' PRIVILEGED AND CONFIDENTIAL
ATTORNEY WORK PRODUCT
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PROPOSED STUDY REPORT OUTLINE
INTRODUCTION
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE
One: The April 1992 Civil Disorder in Los Angeles
A. Overview of Breakdown of Civil Order
(supplemented by Appendices)
B. overview of LAPD Response
Two:
PART TWO:
(supplemented by Appendices)
(sets up balance of report with factual
predicates)
Questions raised:
1. What were the plans?
2. Why didn't they work?
3. What went wrong?
How Did We Get Here?
A. The changed face of Los Angeles
B. Impacts on police
HOW THE CITY WORKS IN AN EMERGENCY
Three: Normal Operation of the City
A. Evolution of City government
1. Reform movement
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Four:
a. Strong City Council
b. Weak executive branch
2. Impacts on police
B. How it works now
A.
B.
c.
D.
1. City Council
2. Mayor
3. Commissions (use Police Commission as
example)
4. City Administrative Officer
5. Departments (use LAPD as example)
The Emergency Operations Organization
Structure
Function
Facilities
Inter-Agency Coordination
Five: LAPD Command, Control and Communications
A. Normal operations
1. Organization
2. Chain of command
3. Patrol
a. Bureaus
b. Divisions
4. Special units
a. Metro
b. Other
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5. Control and communication
a. 911 system
B. Unusual occurrence operations (Tactical
Manual)
1. Organization and chain of command
a. Emergency Operations Center (EOC)
b. Command Post
2. Control and communications
a. 911 system
PART THREE: PREPARATION
Six: Doctrine
A. LAPD policing philosophy
1. Crime fighting vs. community-based
policing
B. LAPD doctrine and tactics for civil disorder
control
1. Different from regular police work?
Seven: Civil Disorder Planning
A. General (Tactical Manual)
1. Mobilization planning
2. Operational planning (Tactics)
3. Logistical planning
4. Inter-agency planning
B. Specific for King verdict?
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Eight: unusual Occurrence Training
A. Academy
B. Field
c. Command level
D. Inter-Agency
1. Joint Exercises
2. All Hands "simulations" for elected
officials and brass
E. Readiness inspections
Nine: Community Information
A. What is needed?
B. Policy issues
c. Alternatives
o. What happened here?
PART FOUR: RESPONSE
Ten: Command, Control and Communications
A. Emergency Operations Organization
B. LAPD
1. Chain of command
a. Morning of April 29
b. Afternoon of April 29
2. Control and communications
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3. Information
a. Television
b. Reports from patrol
c. Use of helicopters
Operations in Response to April 29 Civil
Disorder
A. Strategy for response
1. Was there one?
2. Was it communicated?
3. Was it implemented?
B. Response to initial incidents
1. 77th Division
2. Parker Center
c. Response to fires
1. Coordination and escort
2. Arson control
D. Enforcement response
1. Overview (tactics and deployment)
2. Protection of designated locations
3. curfew
4. Arrests
a. Policy
b. Practice
c. Logistics and support
i. Field booking
ii. Field jails
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iii. Transportation
iv. Judicial process
E. Media impacts
Twelve: Use of Other Law Enforcement Resources
A. Mutual Aid
1. Sheriff
2. Highway Patrol
3. Other police departments
B. State resources
1. Governor's actions
2. Use of state resources
a. Office of Emergency Services
b. National Guard
c. Federal resources
1. President's actions
2. Use of federal resources
a. FBI and other law enforcement
agencies
b. Troops
PART l'IVB: INl'RASTROCTORB AND RESOURCES
Thirteen: Overview of Budget Process
Fourteen: Command, Control and Communications
Infrastructure
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Fifteen: Size of Force ("thin blue line")
A. Huge geographic area
B. Personnel resource allocation
1. Compare to other forces (ratios)
2. Special units v. patrol
3. Traditional v. community-based policing
c. Special problems for civil disorder control
Sixteen: Field Equipment
A. Communications (televisions, hand-held radios
and cellular phones)
B. Transportation
c. Personal gear (vests, helmets, shields, gas
masks)
D. Alternatives to deadly force (tear gas,
rubber bullets)
E. Other
PART SIX: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
seventeen: Conclusions
Eighteen: Recommendations
APPENDICES
Detailed Chronologies
Maps
Other?
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