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From Press-Telegram· wire services excessive use of force, including
' LOS ANGELES - Police the four officers indicted last
Chief Daryl F. Gates said weekinthebeatingofthemotor­
Wednesday that he has ordered a ist, Rodney King.
''brick by On Wednesday, Justice
brick" review
Department officials said they
of police train·
would begin a separate review of
ing procedures
federal civil lawsuits flled in the
in the wake of
same period 11ccusing Los
the videotaped Angeles officers of brutality. '
beating of a John Dunne, hssistant attor- .
black motorist
ney general in charge of the•Jusby
white police
tice Department's Civil. Rights
officers on Gates Division, who announced the
March 3. additional review, said there .
Gates, who.~ .facing growing were about 100 such cases. -~
calls for his resignation, said the The separate reviews by the ·
Police Department would com- Los Angeles·Police Department
pare the results of the review are the first . ordered by: ·Gates
with records of all police brutali- · since the beating. The reviews
ty complaints in recent years to were outlined in a memo sent by
see if there were any patterns. Gates to the city's Police Com-
And Gates said he had ordered mission last week and were disthe
department's psychologists to closed publicly by the chief on
interview or reinterview all offi- Wednesday at a meeting of the
' cers involved in recent cases of · Itos.An_gel~s City Council.
At the council meeting, Gates
continued to defend the depart- ·
ment against accusations of institutional
racism and brutality,
but acknowledged there had
been failures in the department's
command structure.
He said the department also
may have encountered some
problems because of the relative
inexperience of many officers. He
said 38 percent of field officers
and 36 percent of sergeants have
been with the department for
three years or less.
"We're going to have failures,
and we certainly had a failure in y
this instance," he said, .
The American Civil Liberties
Union dropped off 10,000 letters
at the meeting calling for Gates'
resignation, one of which suggested
that the Police Department
change its motto from "To
Protect and Serve" to uTo Pursue
and Slay."
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Date: Thurs. 3/21/91
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Tille:GATES ORDERS TOTAL
REVIEW OF POLICE
TRAINING METHODS
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