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tlc diffcren~. Eac~-of~icer ~~s a Jl
slightly different viewpoint." •
If the officers refuse to describe
how their colleagues stood around \
during the b~ating, they could be 1
severely punwhed.
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In November, 1988, Gates issued
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Spe,cial Order No. 2·1, which estab- .
lished a Police Department policy 1
informing officers of their duty to
testify before any grand jury, coroner's
inquest or court proceeding.
The order states:
"When police officers acquire
knowledge of facts which will tend ·
to incriminate any person, it is
their duty to disclose such facts to
their superiors and to testify freely j
concerning such facts when called .I
upon to do so, even at the risk of
self-incrimination.
"It is a violation of duty for
police officers to refuse to' disclose
I pertinent facts within their: knowl-
, edge, and such neglect of duty can I
: result in disciplinary action up to
and including termination."
Said Marchant: '"fo a peace offi­
\ cer, particularly in the LAPD, his
:job is very important to him and·
he's going to do everything he can
to not get an insubordination
I charge against him, because that
can be a firing offense."
A Los Angeles Police Protective
I League source added: "They don't
1 have any choice. They have to go
Hn and rat on each other."
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ward is Janine Bouey, 31, who told 1
; The Times how in the early spring
of 1989, she was startled to discov- j
er a small card displaying the KKK
signature tucked under the windshield
wiper of her late-model
Volvo station wagon. The car was
parked in an area accessible only to
·officers, she said.
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: A-long with the words "Holy I
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· Order Knights of the Ku Klux
:Klan," the card displayed a logo
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·with a cross inside a circle and .
\gave a Sunland post office box for­
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'inquiries and copies of the Klaus- 1
I man Newsletter.
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! "It made me nervous," she said.
I Bouey said she complained to
Foothill Capt. Valentino Paniccia,
who told her racism does not exist
at ' the northern San Fernando
Valley station. "No one else has
ever complained, you're the first
one," she said in quoting Paniccia.
But Bouey said it was the second
incident she knew of involving a
KK card appearing at Foothill.
'The first instance, she said, .oc­
.curred a few days earlier when a
black male officer found one on his
locker.
Paniccia could not be reached tor
comment. But Lt. Fred Nixon, a
Police Department spokesman,
said: "We need time to look into
Bouey's allegations and after doing [I
that we will respond in any way
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that seems appropriate." : .f
Bouey said she has been sus- I
pended without pay by the LAPD I
for three mi~or infraction~, e~ch
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time for a periOd not exceedmg fiV(' :
days. .
Ultimately, she was given a I
transfer out of Foothill and is now ,
an officer in the Harbor Division •
where she also works as a police 1
defense representative. Bouey said
she plans to continue her LAPD
career despite her perception of 1
deeply rooted racism in some of the
divisions such as Foothill. "To be
black in the LAPD," she said, "is a
liability."
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Bouey said she hopes to tell her
story to the FBI as part of its\'
investigation of the Foothill station.
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On Monday, after news of the\
FBI inquiries at Foothill surfaced, ·I
Bouey said she received an unex- 1
pected call from Sgt. Charles Beck I,
of the inte'rnal affairs unit. She said ;
Beck w