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4 giorni fa · Daryl Gates, Chief of the LAPD from 1978 to 1992, has been blamed for the riots. According to one study, "scandalous racist violence... marked the LAPD under Gates's tempestuous leadership." Under Gates, the LAPD had begun Operation Hammer in April 1987, which was a large-scale militarized push in Los Angeles.
- 12,111
- April 29 – May 4, 1992, (6 days); 31 years ago
- $1 billion
- Los Angeles County, California, United States
And that wasn't the first time Gates came up in my recent experiences. Looking more into it he not only really "started" police militarization with the foundation of SWAT, but also was hugely influential on the "war on drugs" creating the DARE program, and was a lynch pin in the Rodney King incident and subsequent riots.
1 mag 2024 · By the early 1980s, Daryl Gates, who’s now the LAPD chief, is ramping up the War on Drugs—drug raids, drug task forces. That gets reinforced by the Reagan administration when the president calls for a War on Drugs, too. Gates comes up with this idea of a prevention program to address the demand for drugs by kids.
4 mag 2024 · — Los Angeles Police Department Chief Daryl Gates (1982), defending the LAPD's use of chokeholds that resulted in the deaths of several Black men being restrained by officers.
5 giorni fa · Crime and the fear of crime united the county, stretching from South Central to Beverly Hills, and was unmistakably the center of civic life. It’s what got Daryl Gates bounced from the Los Angeles Police Department and elected Richard Riordan on a promise that he was “tough enough to turn LA around.”
8 mag 2024 · Latino. City of Los Angeles. San Fernando Valley. Elmwood Street; Lennox Street; Alley Locos; Astoria Garden Locos; Barrio Van Nuys in the San Fernando Valley – Los Angeles
8 mag 2024 · The Los Angeles riots of 1992 are among a few moments that are seared in my memory. It was mid afternoon on Wednesday April 29, when I got a call from my children’s after school program to come and pick them up, as they were closing early. As a parent, when your children’s day care…
