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...first it was a joke, and Los Angeles Police Chief Thomas Reddin found it as funny as anyone else. Wouldn't Reddin, someone had laughingly suggested, be an ideal TV newscaster for station KTLA, which recently lost its veteran anchorman? Jest or not, the idea made increasing sense to the station, controlled by Gene Autry, and to the chief himself. Last week Reddin announced he would retire after 28 years on the force to become KTLA's chief commentator...
...Above Demagogy. Any other time, Reddin's resignation would have caused only surprise in Los Angeles. In the midst of a bitter mayoral campaign, it became an immediate political issue, with Mayor Sam Yorty, the underdog, espying an angle that might make voters forget the shortcomings of his own regime. Never one to avoid a little demagogy when cornered, Yorty had already charged his opponent, Negro Councilman Thomas Bradley, with running a racist campaign...
...many respects policemen represent the most typical beliefs and attitudes of their communities, including what Los Angeles Chief Thomas Reddin deplores as a moralistic tendency to see things in terms of either-or. Not surprisingly, police tend to be appalled by abnormal behavior and rebellions against authority. Most scorn long hair, and homosexuality horrifies them. With their ingrained respect for work, they take a dim view of people living on welfare. Perhaps most irritating to cops are the white antiwar protesters, most of them collegians who have rejected advantages that policemen themselves lacked and toil to give their own children...
...biggest police problem in the U.S. today, says Los Angeles' Chief Reddin, "is to find ways to equip the policeman so that he won't give in to the baiting and the frustrations." The problem requires more than rigorous discipline and court decisions that ban lawless police practices. Like most tense people, the police could use psychiatric help in discharging hostilities before they explode. The experience of Sausalito, a small city across the bay from San Francisco, offers suggestions. Once a month the entire police department of 29 men joins Psychiatrist Edward Shev for group-therapy discussions about...
...Viet Nam, but while I was at home on leave, I myself noticed a change for the better in the police force of Los Angeles. Being a Negro, and part of this younger generation, I wish to say to Chief Reddin that we are watching closely. It is good to know that the residents of Los Angeles now have someone in the police chief's office who gives a damn...