Volume 38, Number 17 · October 24, 1991
Law and Disorder in LA: Part Two
By John Gregory Dunne
Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department
by the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department
228 pp.
'Daryl Gates: A Portrait of Frustration'
by Bella Stumbo
Los Angeles Times
When the savage beating of Rodney King by members of the Los Angeles Police Department was shown on nationwide TV last March (the incident having been captured on tape by George Holliday, an amateur camera buff), the LAPD and its chief, Daryl Gates, were subjected, for the first time, to a thorough, critical, and impartial investigation. It was carried out by a commission headed by Los Angeles lawyer Warren Christopher, who as deputy secretary of state during the last days of the Carter administration had negotiated the release of the Iran hostages. The picture of the LAPD that emerged from the Christopher Commission's investigation was at sharp variance with the image, long cultivated by the department and its chiefs, of a highly professional, corruption-free force in confident control of crime and the city it policed.
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