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TAGGING RESPONSIBILity for the L.A. riots has spiraled into a full-fledged parlor game. No one can guess who will be "it" with the next flick of the spinner. First it's Daryl Gates, then it's L.B.J. Imagine Murphy Brown's surprise, emerging from the delivery room to find herself a suspect. Who's next, the Japanese? It was, after all, a Sony HandyCam that recorded Rodney King's beating and stirred up this turmoil in the first place...
FLANKED BY 200 OTHER POLICE AND FBI AGENTS, INcluding a shotgun-toting swat team -- and TV camera crews, to be sure -- police chief Daryl Gates elatedly joined in the arrest of three suspects wanted for the beating of truck driver Reginald Denny at the outset of the Los Angeles riots. Leading the 2 a.m. raid into South Central with flak jacket and side arm, Gates personally collared one of the suspects, Damian Williams, whose nickname is "Football," and escorted him into a squad car. "Chief Gates, you're going!" Williams told the retiring police chief, according to what Gates recounted...
DERELICTION AT THE TOP: In many other cities, police chief Daryl Gates would have been removed from office after the Rodney King beating. Instead, the city's civil service laws give Mayor Tom Bradley no authority over the city's top cop, who can be fired only for corruption or criminal behavior. During his 14 years as chief, the controversial Gates had set the tenor of a macho, take- no-nonsense police force. Despite cries for his resignation, Gates clung to his job -- and only reluctantly agreed to retire at the end of June. It was too late. On April...
Which brings us to the matter of the police. Under Daryl Gates, the Los Angeles Police Department became an army, not a police force. With its battering rams and paramilitary uniforms, its choke holds and Taser guns, it set the hard-nosed, Magnum Force, make-my-day standard for urban law enforcement through the '70s and '80s. In the process, it became so muscle- bound and senseless that it was unable to cope rationally with a traffic hazard named Rodney King, let alone with rioters and looters. Here too L.A. takes us into a Blade Runner future...
...Daryl C. Norcott '94, a station clerk and blues D.J. who hosted the show, said he hopes the show will continue next year, "ideally once a week...