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~.remedy 'crisis of conji~rt(:e' \
APR 1 0 1991
By Patrick McGreevy
.Daily News Staff Writer
· Saying the Rodney King ·beat­
·ing had led to a "crisis of confidence"
in the LAPD, Mayor
.Torn Bradley created a sevenmember
commission Monday
witii sweeping powers to look at
'the leadership, ,oversight and
operations of the department.
· Bradley said the investigation,
-which could cost up to $1 million
and take about 90 days, will be
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led by attorney Warren Christop_her,
a deputy attorney general
in Lyndon Johnson's administration
and deputy secretary of state
in Jimmy Carter's adrninistra-·
tion.
The panel will be privately
' funded to bolster its independence
and have powerto'"subpoena
witnesses to testify, Bradley
said at ~ City Hall news' conference.
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· "The Christopher Commission
will deal with the whole range of.
the problem of police brutaliW in
Los Angeles," Bradley said. "The.
time has come for a reasoned, objective,
thorough and construc­
.tive examination of the structure
·and operation of the police de­
JJ>artrnent."
· ··Other members Bradley
. named to the commission are
· Rqy Anderson, chairman erneri­
J~s of Lockheed Corp.; Leo F. Estrada,
an associate professor of
~ Architecture and Urban Planning
.. at th~ ·university of California,
. -Los Angeles; Mickey Kantor, a. •.
, partner in the law firm of Mari-
~ att, Phelps and Phillips; Andrea
-Sheridan Ordin, a former United
States attorney; Dr. Robert Tran­
·quada, dean ofthe University· of
,.southern California School of
Medicine, and John Slaughter,
. president of Occidental College.
-Named as advisers were retired
Deputy Pplice Chief Jesse
Brewer, James Q. Wilson, a well­
. known criminologist and UCLA
· professor, and former New York.
.. City police commissioner Patrick.
Murphy.
The appointment of the­
. ·mayor's commission comes less
than one week after Police Chief
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Daryl F. Gates announced the
formation of his own citizens
panel, to be headed by· for,rner
state Supreme Court Justice John
Arguelles. . ..
Gates' commission will focus
.on excessive-force ca.ses and p~.:
lice training procedures -·a nar-~ ··
rower role than that of the Chrisa'
topher Commission. ·
.. The chief said he "could not be
more pleased" with the mayor's
commission.
. "We welcome an examination
by any group that acts in good
faith with fairness ad objectivi- .
ty," Gates said in a statement. "I
believe that the Chri.stopher
Commission is made up of pe~
-pie of high quality who possess
·an abundance of the above attrib-:
utes."
, Christopher, chairman of the
law firm of O'Melveny & Myers,
. said: "I look forward to working
with the Arguelles Commission.
Their charge is much .narrower
,than ours. I don't really see it as
being competitive or incompatible."
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