Word: daryl
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Some folks just can't take a hint. Critics have demanded the ouster of Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates ever since the brutal beating of a black motorist by white L.A.P.D. officers last March was videotaped and aired repeatedly on national TV. When a commission headed by former Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher recommended new leadership for the force in early July, Gates said he had no intention of "running away." Later, when two members of the city council announced that Gates had agreed to retire by the end of this year, the chief suggested he might keep...
Last week, after 100 days of investigation, meetings with 150 community groups and a review of more than a million documents, an independent bipartisan commission appointed by Mayor Tom Bradley and police chief Daryl F. Gates issued a 228-page report on the case. The commission, headed by Warren Christopher, Deputy Secretary of State in the Carter Administration, charged the nation's third largest police force with tolerating racism, excessive use of force, and lax discipline, and recommended sweeping changes...
...same measured approach to the recent scandal surrounding a videotaped police beating. In the month since the incident, the paper has run as many as six stories a day, from long "Column One" pieces on group violence to two Times Mirror polls showing deteriorating support for police chief Daryl Gates. It was not until Coffey and other editors interviewed Gates and published what he said, however, that the editorial board ran a cautious editorial calling on the chief to resign...
Questions about the actions of our law enforcers are not limited to the case of the Los Angeles Police Department and its chief, Daryl Gates. At the Deer Island prison right here in Massachusetts, the events leading up to the death of an inmate, Arthur Mullally, are being examined as the accounts of inmates and guards differ dramatically...
Money and legislation cannot drive malice and evil from the human heart. Increased funds will not get rid of the Daryl Gateses of the world. And very few criminals fit the heart-rending description of Victor Hugo's Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread to feed his starving family...