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...sickening glare from that grisly scene has thrown light upon police brutality all across the country. Was the beating an aberration, as Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates insists? Or did it affirm yet again that many cops resort to violence, and even deadly force, when no threat to their safety can justify it? Is racism so pervasive among police that the fight against crime all too often becomes a war on blacks? Has the criminal-justice system, which permits too many criminals to go free after serving only token sentences or none at all, become so ineffectual that officers...
...going to force me out of this office," says Daryl Gates. "I didn't invest 42 years of my life to go down the tubes over an incident I had nothing to do with...
...Daryl Gates complained last week that his department is "not getting" public support. "They hate me," he said of his critics, a condition ordinarily insufficient to demand a police commander's resignation: most chiefs are routinely denounced by some of those they serve. But when a near majority of Los Angeles residents say in a poll they fear for their safety when stopped by an L.A. cop, and a quarter say they have personally seen or been involved in an incident in which excessive force has been used, something is tragically wrong. And the first thing wrong is Daryl Gates...
...think L.A. police chief Daryl Gates should be held responsible for the conduct of his officers...
...three of the officers for departmental discipline, said they had "brought shame and dishonor upon the police profession." Yet he dismissed the beating as an "aberration." In fact, the roots of the incident have much to do with both the history of the L.A.P.D. and the stewardship of Daryl Gates...