Daryl Gates in His Own Words

Posted on April 17, 2010 by lmharnisch

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Photograph by R.L. Oliver / Los Angeles Times

March 29, 1978: Sima Gates checks the new badge of her husband, Daryl F. Gates, after he was sworn in as the city's 49th chief of police during ceremonies at the Police Academy.

I recorded this speech by former Chief Daryl Gates at a June 2009 meeting of retired LAPD officers. My interest was in his remarks dismissing allegations about Dr. George Hodel in Steve Hodel’s “Black Dahlia Avenger” that former Chiefs William Parker and Thad Brown “in a conscious and deliberate obstruction of justice, aided and abetted a cover-up and, along with their subordinates, were directly responsible for knowingly permitting a psychopathic serial killer to remain free until he was finally forced to leave the country in 1950.” (Page 373).   

In his speech, Gates addressed those charges and made quite a few other observations about the state of the LAPD, including the response to the 2007 May Day protests at MacArthur Park and the handling the riots at Staples Center earlier that month. 

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