Weekly status report, number 10, overview, 1992-08-07

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Content JUDGE WILLIAM H. WEBSTER
SPECIAL ADVISOR
CHIEF HUBERT WILLIAMS
DEPUTY SPECIAL ADVISOR
RICHARD J. STONE
GENERAL COUNSEL
AND STAFF DIRECTOR
JERRY S . BATHKE
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
DEPUTY GENERAL COUNSEL
TERRY W . BIRD
PAUL G . SOWER
WAYNE S . 8RAVEMAN
JOHN H. BRINSLEY
GERALD L. CHALEFF
JA MES P . CLARK
AUDREY 8 . COLLINS
JAN LAWRENCE H AND ZLIK
KENNETH R . HEITZ
THEODORE WARREN JACKSON
DIANN H . KIM
VINCENT J. MARELLA
MARYLIN J . MILNER
BRIAN O ' NEILL
CHARLES PEREYRA-SUAREZ
LIN DA S. PETERSON
C ORNE LL J . PRICE
K AREN RAN DALL
BARBARA A . REEVES
ANA I . SEGURA
SALLY SUCHIL
SENIOR CONSULTANTS
PETER 8. FRANK
ROGER S . YOUNG
OFF'ICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISOR
TO THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS
CITY OF Los ANGELES
August 7, 1992
Privileged and Confidential
Attorney Work Product
Attorney-client communication
VIA FEDERAL EXPRESS
Judge William H. Webster
Special Advisor to the Board of Police
Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & Mccloy
1825 Eye Street, N.W., Suite 900
Washington, D.C. 20006
Chief Hubert Williams
Deputy Special Advisor to the Board of Pol ice
Commissioners of the City of Los Angeles
Police Foundation
1001 22nd Street, N.W., Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20037
Re: Weekly Status Report No. 10 -
August 7, 1992
Dear Judge Webster and Chief Williams:
Enclosed is the tenth weekly status
report. This ·report is intended to be a
confidential communication to you from your
General Counsel, subject to the Attorney-Client
Privilege and the Work Product Protection. As
such, it should be guarded by you in a safe place
and disclosed only to persons who are members of
the study staff or who have signed the Policy
Statement re Confidentiality.
The official record of our study is
maintained in the Office of the Special Advisor.
We intend this weekly status report and the
attached materials to be a working copy for your
personal use. At the conclusion of the study, all
of these materials should be returned to the
Office of the Special Advisor or destroyed. our
plan is for the "official record" to be archived
upon the conclusion of the study, and for no other
record to exist.
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Judge William H. Webster
Chief Hubert Williams
August 7, 1992
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Please do not hesitate to call if you have questions or
wish to discuss anything.
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Enclosure
Sincerely,
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Richard J. Stone
General Counsel and
Staff Director
OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISOR
TO THE BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS
CITY OF LOS ANGELES
Privileged and Confidential
Attorney Work Product
Attorney-Client communication
WEEKLY STATUS REPORT NO. 10
August 7, 1992
This Weekly Status Report is created solely for the
benefit of our clients, Special Advisor William H. Webster and
Deputy Special Advisor Hubert Williams, and for no other purpose.
It contains confidential information and should not be
distributed to other persons.
This report is in two sections. The first section
describes significant events that have occurred within the last
week. The second section reports on upcoming events in the next
week.
I. RECENT EVENTS
A. Community Attitude Survey
Last weekend, July 31 - August 2, 1992, over 300
volunteers completed, via telephone interviews, nearly 1100
questionnaires during our Community Attitude Survey. The results
of this Survey currently are being tabulated by Starr &
Associates, a nationally known communications firm, who designed
the Survey. We are very pleased that we were able to reach such
a large portion of the community through this Survey, and we look
forward to reviewing the results.
B. Police Department Survey
This week, we continued to receive responses to our
Police Department Questionnaire. We are pleased that 54 of the
72 Departments being surveyed have returned completed
Questionnaires. A status report regarding which Questionnaires
have been received is attached. Most, if not all, of the
remaining Departments have indicated that they are in the process
of completing the Questionnaire, and that they will be sending
their responses to us within the next week or so.
c. Comparisons Team
This week, the Comparisons Team and the Visiting Police
Officers scheduled and prepared for interviews of personnel from
12 of the Police Departments being surveyed through the Police
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Department Questionnaire. Members of the LAPD and Inter-Agency
Teams will also participate in this interview process in an
effort to take advantage of comparative information these teams
have obtained through their interviews in Los Angeles.
Interviews have been scheduled in Chicago, Detroit, Oakland,
Philadelphia, Miami, Metro-Dade, Houston, and San Diego. We are
in the process of confirming times for interviews in Atlanta, San
Antonio, New York, and Newark. We are pleased that each of these
Departments has agreed to allow members of our team to conduct
interviews of their personnel. We expect that the information
obtained through these interviews will be very helpful to our
Study.
On Friday, August 7, 1992, Rick Stone, Betsy Lear, and
the Visiting Police Officers met with the Comparisons Team to
discuss the status of the Team's work and to work out the final
details for the interviews the Team will conduct in Departments
in other cities. In addition, the group participated in a
training session conducted by members of the LAPD Team. The
purpose of this training session was to share information
obtained by the LAPD Team regarding the same subjects the
Comparisons Team will be discussing with Departments in other
cities.
D. Chronologies Team
On Monday, August 3, 1992 and Friday, August 7, 1992,
Rick Stone, Betsy Lear, and the Visiting Police Officers met with
the Chronologies Working Group to discuss the status of the
Group's work. The Group continues to work on obtaining
additional data necessary to complete their analysis, as well as
displaying the data in the form of charts and graphs. This week,
we continued to analyze the arrest data we received last week
from the LAPD and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office. We
are in the process of gaining an understanding about how the data
was collected and what it represents in terms of information
about the locations of the arrests and the agencies making the
arrests. We hope that this data, which reflects some 12,000
arrests, will be useful in gaining a more thorough understanding
of the law enforcement response to the civil unrest in April.
E. Interview Reports
The interview process continues to proceed. As you can
see from the attached status report, many interviews continue to
be scheduled, and a significant number have been completed. This
week, we asked each of the teams to identify any interviews
remaining to be completed. Copies of these reports are attached.
We hope to complete these remaining interviews by the end of
August.
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The interview memoranda library continues to expand.
The original interview memoranda are on file in the Office of the
Special Advisor; working copies of the one-page summaries of
several of the interviews conducted to date are attached for your
use. All interview memoranda, including the one-page summaries,
are highly confidential and should be maintained in a secure
location.
F. Library
A copy of the current index to the library in the
Office of the Special Advisor is attached. As you can see from
this index, we continue to receive many materials which are
useful in our investigation. Among the documents we received
this week were additional documents we had requested from the
LAPD, as well as documents from the City Administrative Officer's
Office regarding the Emergency Operations Organization.
G. Meeting of Deputy General Counsel
On Friday, August 7, 1992, the Deputy General Counsel
met to discuss the status of the Teams' work, and to revise work
plans for completing the remaining fact-gathering. We hope to
complete most, if not all, of the necessary interviews and
document gathering by the end of August.
In addition, this week, we circulated a plan and
schedule for completing our final report by the target date of
October 19, 1992. A copy of the memorandum outlining this plan
and schedule in detail is attached. Our overall plan is to
(1) finish all fact-gathering in August; (2) produce Final Team
Reports by the end of August; (3) produce a working draft of the
report in September; (4) conduct public meetings and hearings in
September and early October; and (5) complete our final report in
October. The process by which we execute this plan has three
critical components: (1) interaction between the Deputy General
Counsel and their team members; (2) interaction among the
Deputies as a group; and (3) interaction between the Deputies and
the Special Advisor and Deputy Special Advisor, which will
intensify as we begin to develop our working draft of the report.
We hope that by adhering to this plan, we will meet our schedule
for producing our final report by this target date.
H. Final Report Preparation
This week, Jerry Bathke, our Executive Director,
continued to research and examine details pertinent to printing
and distributing our final report. A memorandum containing
recommendations concerning the logistical aspects of preparing
our final report is attached. Comments regarding these
recommendations would be appreciated.
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I. Logistics and Support
Executive Director, and Secretary/Treasurer, Jerry
Bathke has prepared an Income and Expense Statement for Special
Advisor study, Inc., a copy of which is attached. We are pleased
that we continue to be able to manage our operation in a very
cost-effective and efficient manner.
Jerry Bathke continues to work with corporations and
foundations to obtain additional contributions, both monetary and
in-kind, to assist with our study. Four corporations have
confirmed that contributions are on their way as a result of our
recent solicitation efforts. In addition, the Southern
California Gas Company is considering whether they can provide
the printing of our final report as a contribution; Toyota is
considering an extension of their donation of vehicles; and
Mitsui Fudosan is considering an extension of our free office
space. We are also seeking free lodging to be used by the
Visiting Police Officers for the period following September 1,
1992.
II. UPCOMING EVENTS
A. Interviews of Other Police Departments
Next week, the Comparisons Team will begin to travel to
12 other cities to conduct interviews of personnel in the Police
Departments in those cities. Interviews are scheduled in
Chicago, Detroit, Oakland, and San Diego next week. In addition,
members of the Team, along with the Visiting Police Officers,
will continue to review responses to the Police Department
Questionnaire.
B. Interviews
The interview process continues to progress. As you
can see from the attached schedule, a number of interviews will
be conducted during the coming week. In addition, the teams will
attempt to schedule the necessary remaining interviews. We hope
to complete most, if not all, of the remaining necessary
interviews by the end of August.
C. Visiting Police Officers
Our Visiting Police Officers have been invaluable to us
in conducting our Study, and we really could not do without them.
Unfortunately, their time with us is now scheduled to expire at
the end of August. We are hopeful that we can arrange for them
to extend their time with us through our target report completion
date of October 19, 1992.
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