officers - The Black Vault

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LOS ANGELES TIMES
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; Before We Rush to Condemn the ·''''""'oPINION sECTION, PAGE 1
BEFORE WE RUSH TO CONDE~
Depart!lle1_1t' s Leader~}1ip,
Examine, the Facts. c~ter: civiL RIGHTs
• LAPD: Rapid recruitment has
strained system, but there is no
· institutional anti-black bias.
Vast majority of officers are
. ·models of duty and valor.
· ~By Ed Davis
Last week, ail America-'and
. much of the world-witnessed
. an apparently senseless and
: criminal beating of a suspect.
following a high-speed car
, chase. The videotaped beating administered
by officers of the Los Angeles
.Police Department absolutely shocked
.every right-thinking citizen and officer
who watched it.
, Since then, a county grand jury has
f-lndicted four of the officers involved in
· the beating, and the district attorney's
··Office continues its criminal investigation.
The LAPD is conducting its own internal
administrative probe. The criminal-jus­
.tice system can punish an officer wh9
.c.u.uu.v~, LAPD chief of police from 1969 to
1978, is o. state senator ( R-Santa Clarita).
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