Word: angeleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To damp down rumors that often lead to riots?a report that a pregnant Negro woman had been beaten by police helped precipitate the 1965 uprising ?Los Angeles, like other cities, has set up rumor-control centers. If an inflammatory incident occurs, police immediately tell their side of the...
So that residents can know who the man behind the badge is, Reddin also gave each cop business cards and name tags?an innocuous but nonetheless controversial departure in a once notoriously highhanded force. Another innovation is actually ancient. Reddin has returned to the streets a man who disappeared from...
One consequence is a dismayingly low percentage of college men in police work. Only a very few forces, including Los Angeles', require any higher education at all. Another is that more and more policemen have to moonlight to make ends meet?and in most cities are required to carry their...
His tastes are mildly intellectual. Virtually every attraction that comes to the Los Angeles Music Center is on his list, and with his wife Betty he attends night courses at U.C.L.A., their subjects ranging from archaeology and modern art to drama and "Man in Contemporary Society." He is perhaps the...
After a four-year hitch in the Navy, he found a job at a gas station in Los Angeles in 1938. When he was alone in the station one night, a stickup man shoved a gun in his back, then took $12 from the till. The police answered Reddin'...