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YOUR REPORT ON THE LOS ANGELES Police Department following the Simpson verdict painted a very misleading and inaccurate picture of the L.A.P.D. and the officers who struggle to maintain order in a very complex community. As a 22-year veteran of the L.A.P.D. and a member of the command staff, I take particular exception to your reference to the "good ole boys who still run the show." Any suggestion that the entire management staff should have been purged when Chief Willie Williams took over implies that those of us who are in positions of authority are resistant to change...
...case by the Los Angeles Police Department. Whether Simpson is guilty, only he only he knows for sure. But given the multitude of mistakes made during the investigation and the blow to the prosecution of having Detective Mark Fuhrman perjure himself on the stand, was there any other verdict the jury could have returned? HEIDI R. HETTINGER, Champaign, Illinois Via E-mail
...FOUND THE SCENES OF JUBILATION OUTside the Los Angeles courthouse after the verdict quite distressing. I wonder how reaction to such behavior might have differed had a mostly white crowd rejoiced after an acquittal of a famous white person accused of brutally murdering two African Americans. ALLEN YATES, Johannesburg, South Africa...
...VERDICT HAS COME DOWN, AND A man I think is a murderer has been found not guilty. The lawyers representing him were able to switch the focus of the trial away from the deaths of the two victims and somehow turn it toward the disparity between whites and blacks in the U.S. But O.J. Simpson is not by any stretch of the imagination a representative of the African-American people. He did nothing for them when he was at the peak of his career or at any time afterward. There used to be a very effective remedy for those...
...LIVE IN HOLLAND, WHERE ONE JUDGE rules whether someone is guilty or not guilty. In the U.S., a jury of 12 decides the verdict. I thought the American way was much fairer until I heard the O.J. Simpson verdict. I have learned from this case that because Simpson was rich, he could buy his defense. The American system of law is not all that fair. KOEN BAART, Barneveld, the Netherlands...