Word: angeleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WHEN Hubert Humphrey took to his bed in Washington with a 101° fever, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty was unsympathetic enough to suggest that the Vice President had contracted a diplomatic malady. The reason for his sudden indisposition, suggested Yorty, was the threat-which indeed materialized-of massive anti...
Nowhere is more being done in these respects than in Los Angeles, scene of the first cataclysmic riots of the '60s. No police chief is acting more vigorously or imaginatively to prevent new outbreaks than Los Angeles' Thomas Reddin, 52, who understands that the cop today must not only be...
The Census. Whereas most European states have centralized forces with uniform, nationwide standards, the U.S. has 40,000 separate law-enforcement agencies?with 40,000 different codes, 40,000 different policies, and 40,000 different ideas as to how the peace should be maintained. Los Angeles County has 50 police...
Duties vary just as widely. Boston police must not only conduct an annual door-to-door census, a chore that consumes ten weeks, but also have to issue permits for dogs, guns, private detectives, itinerant musicians, pawnbrokers, junk dealers, new-and used-car dealers, and hackney cabs. In Los Angeles...
Like any other lost battle, Watts yielded its lessons, and Los Angeles' riot plan is now geared for all contingencies. Police response is carefully adjusted, like a Herman Kahn scenario, to the size of the disturbance?enough force to smother trouble quickly, but not enough to provoke greater resentment. In...