The Los Angeles Times smears memory of former LAPD Chief Gates Parker talked a lot as Gates drove around the city, and Gates listened, soon earning a reputation as the chief's fair-haired boy. Daryl Gates' L.A. More on the police chief's influence on the LAPD and its racist, violent policies in the early 1990s, and his clash with L.A. mayor Tom Bradley. Gates is co-credited with the creation of SWAT teams with LAPD's John Nelson, who others claim was the originator of SWAT in 1965. 12The Class of 1874 Gate, Northwest, casts a shadow on the brick wall of Lionel Hall. Utter rubbish. Join Facebook to connect with Brad Gates and others you may know. Anyone they felt merited a closer look. Gates was mentioned in a large number of rap and metal songs in the aftermath of the LA riots. [31] Hahn ultimately appointed William J. Bratton, a former police commissioner of Boston and New York City, to head the department. I was at work in South Los Angeles on the day the riots began, and I was dumfounded when my coworkers and I were told to go home at the end of our regular shift. [15] In February 1984, an out-of-court settlement awarded $1.8 million to the named plaintiffs, individuals, and organizations who had sued the City of Los Angeles. Tensions peaked in March 1991, when a bystander made a videotape of the beating of a black motorist, Rodney King, by four white LAPD officers. 18 years after retirement, officers who never worked with him cheer him as chief of police.". And what happened in Los Angeles that April night 25 years ago is a critical part of the current national conversation on policing and race. Gates "fought vigorously to make sure the chief's duties were not encroached upon. . He apologized to King in a backhanded way, calling attention to King's status as a parolee with a long arrest record. All rights reserved. L.A. has a new answer, Epic snowpack upends rhythms of life for many species in Sierra Nevada range, Decades of failures leave L.A. County facing up to $3 billion in sex abuse claims. Despite the officers' contentions that King had threatened their lives, he was never charged. In making the police chief beholden to political interests, factors other than leadership ability and law enforcement expertise were weighed heavily in the ensuing selection processes, resulting first in the appointment of the affable but inept Willie Williams and later the capable but tyrannical Bernard Parks, under both of whose stewardship the LAPD suffered badly. He was taking pre-law courses at USC when he learned that she was pregnant. The rioting erupted at Florence and Normandie avenues while Gates was attending a Brentwood function to raise funds in opposition to a police-reform ballot measure. He set up his own investigation company, and a security and surveillance consultancy, Global ePoint. "That, in a nutshell," says the Times, "was the kind of policing Daryl Gates stood for: an officer in a tank, shielded behind steel walls from the community he serves, knocking down the wall instead of knocking at the door.
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