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Mayor, chief at odds over hoW to ·repair LAPD's image
By Rick Orlov
Daily News 1aff Writer
Longtime adversaries, Mayor
Tom Bradley and Police Chief
Daryl F. Gates are again at odds
- this time over how to rebuild
public confidence in the Los Angeles
Police Department in the
. wake of the Rodney Glen King
incident.
In a flurry of public appear­
, .ances last week, Gates rejected
.. calls for his resignation and in­
.sisted he alone is the person who
can provide the leadership to re-
toward c'reation of an indepen- Gates declined repeated re
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dent commission to closely ex- quests for interviews last week
• L.A. council divided on Gates. amine·the department as a key saying through a spokesman tha
• Dallas chief condemns beating. step in reorganizing the LAPD he was too busy. But in a series o
and restoring its prestige. public appearances, the chie
• Gates criticizes aspects of probe .. "I suspect that if he remains, made it clear that he has no in·
there will continue to be the fe- tention of leaving until his de·
store public confidence in the de- rocity of demands we've seen for partment's tainted image is res·
partment. his retirement," Bradley said in tored.
Bradley- .a 21 year LAPD an interview with the Daily "This controversy over 'shoulc
veteran - repeatedly said the News. "I think it's going to be the chief stay or go' is counter·
only way for the city to mend it- . ·very unlikely that anything con- productive," Gates said at a grad·
self is through the departu.re of structivc can take place with re- uation ceremony at the Los An·
Gates, who on Sunday · Jcele- gard to healing the city until the .geles Police _Aca.Q.eP}y on_ ~riday
brated his 13th year as chief. storm has settled with regard to :"It's not in the best interests of
The mayor said he is leaning Chief Gates." , the city. I wish we could get beyond
it. It will subside because
this chief is not going anywhere.
"We need to look internally at
our organization. We need to
prove that what we say is true,
that we treat human beings as human
beings. I feel I can provide
the leadership to do that."
King, an unarmed black motorist,
was beaten by white police
officers following a traffic stop in
Lake View Terrace on March 3.
The incident attracted nationwide
attention because it was
. captured on videotape by a wit­
·ness, and tensions escalated following
disclosures that some of
. the officers involved made racist
remarks on police communications
systems before the inci-
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