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Sunday. "I object to it because I don't
see any reason to subject the officers'
families to all of this.''
FBI spokesman Jim Nielson refused
comment Sunday except to say, "We are
conducting an investigation of allegations
of violations of civil rights.''
The Los Angeles Police Protective
League advised officers they have the
right to' have an attorney present during
· FBI questioning and should tell FBI ,
agents they are cooperating "under du- '
ress," according to a union statement.
Lt. 'George Aliano, the
league's president, said that de:
spite the legal advice, the union
welcomed the investigation. "-~l
think this should be done as
soon as possible," he said. "Tp~.
people in the city .should know :
what's occurring. Bad or ,goOd;:
it needs to get out." .
Preventing police br!ltality.
. should begin- in training, sai~
Ramona Ripston of the Ameri·
can Civil Liberties Uirlon 'Fouii- .
dation of Southern California ... -~.
"When I have spOken to P.O··
lice officers, they have told me
that they have no training on'
. how to intervene when they see -
another police officer breaking
the law," she said on CBS-TV'~
"Face the Nation" Sunday.
A newspaper reported that 35
officers have been admonished
by Gates since 1985 for shootings
found to have violated de-
. partment policy. But only seven
officers have left the force, and
none was prosecuted, according
to Sunday's Los Angeles Daily
News. ·
Over the same period, the city
,paid more than $2.5 million to
.survivors and relatives of people
involved in police shootings,
according to city records. In.addition,
police records from 1985
show that 70 percent of people
shot by police officers were mi­
.noriti~s.
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