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Police kicked open doors and cleared off a bar with a night-stick, students said. "It was like they were busting into a crack-house. And I think one of them had riot gear on," one Canaday F resident who was at the party said...
...replay of last year's arson and looting; 600 National Guardsmen gathered in armories to back them up; at Camp Pendleton 70 miles away, U.S. Marines had been practicing urban assault tactics in case neither the cops nor the National Guard could quench the flames of racial riot...
With his characteristic booster spirit, Ueberroth overestimated what his group could do. He spoke of making the riot-torn parts of the inner city the safest in Los Angeles. Using numbers provided by a study group he commissioned, he set out to raise $5 billion in private-sector investment over five years to bring at least 75,000 jobs to neglected parts of the city. By the group's own definition, that area encompassed 163 sq. mi. with 2.5 million residents...
...dark days just after the riot, Los Angeles needed a dose of hopeful talk. But people who came to Rebuild L.A. looking for quick help to rebuild ruined businesses were disappointed. RLA had no money of its own to disperse. It was conceived to facilitate the efforts of others, a mission that presumed there would be a multitude of efforts to facilitate. Ueberroth hoped that the rebuilding drive would rest on a tripod of government, private-sector and community-based efforts. But government on all levels shrugged and turned out its empty pockets. An emergency urban-aid package of federal...
Williams impressed his rank and file with his decisive response in halting a miniriot last December in South Central. The chief immediately dispatched 300 | officers in riot gear to the scene, where they quelled the melee with rubber bullets. "At least he grabbed the bull by the horns," commented a 27-year officer at his retirement party. Yet the police force suffers from poor morale, and most officers still chafe at Williams' attitude that the police are public servants rather than a repressive force. Some thoughtful cops recognize the problem. "The public has to remember that we are their police...