officers - The Black Vault

From left, Andrea Sheridan Ordin, Dr. Robert Tranquada,.Roy
'Anderson, Dr. Leo F. Estrada, Councilman John Ferraro,
PROFILES OF COMMISSION MEMBERS
Mayor Tom Bradley appointed a seven-member personal finances. Kantor, 50, is also a member
commission Monday to review police brutali· of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps, the
. ty issues and the operations of the Los Angeles Cf\lifornia Commission on Campaign Financing
. Police Department. The commission members and the American Jewish Committee. He has
are: ·
been active in Democratic Party campaigns, including
Walter Mondale's 1984 bid for the presidency.
• Warren Christopher, who will be chairman of the
defense a!torneys dun~g a 1989 m· Association and the San Diego Urban League.
~vestrgatron by the crty attorney rnto Bradley's . •
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commission head Waren ·Christopher, Mayor. Tom Brcldle~vtt.:
District Attorney Ira Reiner ana John Slaughte~.
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• Dr. Robert Tramuiada, dean of the University of :.1i
Southern California School of Medicine. Tran- ,_.
quada is the former medical director of the''·~
County-USC Medical Center, and former region-!)
aJ. director. of the Los Angeles County Depart· .; '
ment of Health Services. 1,;.
• Leo F. Estrada, associate professor at the •
Graduate School of Architecture and Urban~:
Planing at UCLA. Estrada recently served as a . ;
principal adviser during the redistricting of the ; 1
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors' dis-· .. •
. tricts. · "; ·
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• Rov Anderson, chairman emeritus of the Lock- c~
heed Corp. and a member of the board of trust- :..:
ees of Stanford University. He is also on the ::J .
bo~rd ~f directors of First Interstate Bank of .j:
Calrfornra.
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Bradley's announcement oft~
Christopher Commission ?r~w
skepticism from George AhanQ,
president of the Police Protectiye
League, which represents 8,09P
police officers. ~ .
. . "They are high-powered p~­
: pie but they don't know 'YQat
. happens on the street," Ahano
said. "If the problem is going to
. be solved it has to be solved by
. , the people accused of doing
;, things wrong." : ·
· Aliano said the Police Protec­
·.tive League pl~ns to announce
. later this week that it will conduct
its own review of problems
, plaguing the Police Departme11t.
, . Aliano said he does not. see
much difference between ·the
goals of the commissions -ap­
. pointed by Gates and Bradley.
, · "They're just different P.eo-
.. pie," he said. · •..
,- However, the mayor's anriou­
'ncement of the commission was
supported at the news conference
·by District Attorney Ira Reiqer
~and City Council president Jopn
:nFerraro.
1 .But ··Reiner doubted that the.
, commission alone can restore
. confidence in Police Depati:-
~·ment. · · · 1
. ~ "It i~ n_ot the purpose of th_is
{.:coinpusswn to restore pubbc
tconfidence in the Los Angeles:
!. Police Department because that'
~can onty·be done by the depart-:
, ment itself," Reiner said, adding'
fthat confidence only can be res-'
tored by po~ice "deeds, not J),ub-;
~; Jic rela~i(>ns." ·