But things are worse now after the videotaped Rodney King beating by L.A. police brought demands for Daryl Gates to resign. In making the police chief beholden to political interests, factors other than leadership ability and law enforcement expertise were weighed heavily in the ensuing selection processes, resulting first in the appointment of the affable but inept Willie Williams and later the capable but tyrannical Bernard Parks, under both of whose stewardship the LAPD suffered badly. As I drove home that day, I saw smoke billowing up from numerous fires across South L.A., and as I watched the news on television that night I saw that the LAPD was clearly overwhelmed. He completed his rookie year still intending to be a lawyer when he was tapped to serve as driver and bodyguard for Parker, newly installed as chief. A long-running theme in his life was the deep mutual antipathy he shared with many - but by no means all - writers and editors at the Los Angeles Times. Beck is the son of an LAPD officer and husband of another. Gates' combative style can be traced to a hardscrabble childhood in Glendale, where he was born Aug. 30, 1926. Brad Gates, a farmer . County Sheriff Brad Gates is used to outsiders confusing him with Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates. It did not disappoint. The novelist Michael Connelly, a former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, said: "Gates set the image of the entire department. Gates termed this an aberration, but a commission headed by the future secretary of state Warren Christopher identified pervasive racist behaviour and called for Gates to be replaced. ), The controversial chief, whose tenure ran from 1978 to 1992, spent his entire four-decade career at the LAPD, where he won national attention for innovative approaches to crime fighting and prevention: He instituted military-style SWAT teams to handle crises and the gentler DARE classroom program to prevent drug abuse. For the LAPD, there have been huge changes. Critics considered him incapable of adapting to changing attitudes. "You don't have an instinctive dislike or reaction to LAPD officers." Daryl Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. But these could not stem his, and his force's, increasing alienation from the quickly changing demographic make-up of the city, an alienation not helped by Gates's own perceived aloofness from community concerns, especially increasing sensitivity to police brutality. [1], Gates graduated from Franklin High School in Highland Park and joined the U.S. Navy in time to see action in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Gates appears in an uncredited role at the end of the 1997 film L.A. [citation needed], In collaboration with the Rotary Club of Los Angeles, Gates founded DARE, the Drug Abuse Resistance Education program, designed to educate students and children about the dangers of drug abuse. Gates also co-founded D.A.R.E. "I can honestly say the LAPD of 2017 is not your grandfather's LAPD, and it's not the LAPD of Daryl Gates, that 25 years ago, plunged this city into the biggest riot in (modern) American history," says civil rights lawyer Connie Rice. After the riots broke out, Gates told reporters that the situation would soon be under control and left Parker Center to attend a previously scheduled political fundraising dinner. TMZ. Daryl Gates - Interesting stories about famous people, biographies Then something changed, Most of Yosemite Valley is closed due to potentially perilous snowpack and flooding, Four dead in mass shooting in Mojave, report says, What was behind the protest against an archaeologist at last weeks L.A. Times Book Festival, Column: If not cops or guns, what will it take to make us feel safe?
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