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COPS SHOULD HAVE SKINS THICKER THAN AN ELEphant's hide. After all, each day they confront life's most horrible scenery, from murder to mayhem. But San Francisco police chief Richard Hongisto's thin skin got him canned last week because he allegedly couldn't stand the sight of a gay newspaper that blasted | his handling of the protests that erupted in San Francisco following the Rodney King verdict in the suburbs of Los Angeles. So he reportedly ordered some officers to strip them off the racks...
...Francisco Bay Times, which serves the Bay Area's gay and lesbian community, ran a cover showing Hongisto in a doctored photograph grasping a nightstick in a lewd fashion. The headline read, DICK'S COOL NEW TOOL: MARTIAL LAW. The article slammed Hongisto, a sympathetic veteran of the city's Flower Power demonstrations in the 1960s, who three weeks ago ordered massive police sweeps that resulted in more than 1,700 arrests. The show of force enraged liberals and inspired the Bay Times story. Hongisto, appointed by Mayor Frank Jordan only six weeks ago, denies ordering his cops to remove...
When the mayor (a former police chief) heard about Hongisto's response, he ordered a police investigation. It led to the return of more than 2,100 copies of the paper after investigators seized them in a police officer's basement. The police commission then fired the chief...
Opponents say the law will penalize law-abiding citizens trying to protect themselves. But City Supervisor Richard Hongisto points out that handguns were used in self-defense only four times in 1981. The numbers on the other side are more persuasive: more than half of the city's 126 homicides were by handguns...
...indeed been trouble-ridden. In January 1978, during his first weeks in office he and the city's grossly ill-equipped service department had been greeted by some of the worst winter weather in the city's history. Months later, his firing of newly-appointed police chief Richard Hongisto sparked a recall election which eventually fell just 236 votes short of ousting him from office. His administration, staffed primarily by unusually young and inexperienced supporters whom the Cleveland business establishment and press continually charged with ineptitude and hostility, had to deal with the incomprehensible financial records left by the previous...