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According to the 12-page report,
"goad .and sufficient cause" would
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involve conduct by the chief that
"can be shown to have been detrimental
to the discipline and efficient
achievement of the Police
Department's mission to assure
public safety." The misconduct
would have to have occur.red during
the previous year, meaning
that any insensitive remarks made
by Gates before last year that were
not the subject of reprimands could
not be used against him, according
to labor law experts.
• City Councilman j.Vlichael' Woo
and a group of community leaders
· criticized Gates' plan to appoint his
own commission to review Police
Department policies on the use of
force. The chief on Wednesday
unveiled a 10-point program to
examine police misconduct and improve
community relations.
But Woo said, "It would be very
hard for the chief's own commission
to bring back ·findings that
were critical of the chief. Such a
, commission might fail to make the ·
LAPD's top brass t:fuly accounta- .
ble."
Woo said he supports a plan, like
one being drawn by Mayor Tom
Bradley, that would have a com- I
mission report to the mayor and
City CounciL The councilman said
the commission should be funded
by private foundations and individuals,
rather than the city, to assure
its impartiality.
~mong those backing Woo's position
were Joseph Duff, president
of the Los Angeles chapter of the
National Assn. for the Advancement
of Colored People; Mark Ridley-Thomas,
director of the local
chapter of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, and Alan
Clayton, a representative of the
League of United Latin-American
Citizens.
• Bradley said he will ask the
Police Commission to establish a
computer data base with records of
all cases of excessive force, so that
problem officers and police stations
can be tracked "at a punch of the
computer button."
"You'll be able to see if there is a
pattern that demonstrates a dan-:
ger," Bradley said. !
• The Unite~ Neighborhoods ' 1
Organization WNO) became the .
latest group to call for Gates to :
resign. .
"We want to show our African-
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LOS ANGELES TIM~
American brothers and sisters that
we stand with them " said the Rev
Joseph Pina, a spokesman for th~
~ro~p: ':What 8hief Gates is doing
Is dlVIdmg the city by neighborhood,
income level andrace."
• In New York, Gloria Molina,
or will force Gates "to quit by the
end of the year."
İ "That would be my guess bel'
cause l think this is the begin:ning
1·. of the end for Gates," she said.
' However, she added, it would be
! . unfair to call for Gates' resign'1ltion
the newest member of the Los
Angeles County Board of Supervisors,
appeared at an annual convention
of Latino journalists in
~ew Yor~, predicting that aggres­
SIVe med1a coverage of the King
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case al1d the constant public clam-
LOS ANGELES TIMES
now because he received outstahding
performance ratings duringltilC'
last three years.
Times' staff w"riters Glenn F. Bmtting,
James Rainey, George Ra0,86, ·
Lois Timnlck and Hector Tobar coritrl'b·
lile!l'to this· story.
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