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"... complete portrait of the horrors that everyone endures from the events of one night." The Washington Post
Philadelphia police chief to head Los Angeles force
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Philadelphia Police Commissioner Willie Williams will become Los Angeles' first African-American police chief, authorities said yesterday, inheriting a department still floundering after a videotaped beating more than a year ago.
Williams, 48, one of six finalists to replace Chief Daryl Gates in June, will also be the first chief in more than 40 years to come from outside the 8,300-officer department.
"I like Willie," Gates said about his successor.
The search for a new chief began after Gates disclosed he was leaving in the aftermath of the March 3, 1991, videotape of Los Angeles police officers beating motorist Rodney King that led to a nationwide examination of police brutality.
Known for being tough on rogue cops as well as an innovator for community-based policing, Williams takes over a scandalized and demoralized department once lionized by such TV shows as "Dragged."
Philadelphia Mayor Ed Rendell, who announced Williams was taking the Los Angeles job, said Williams told him the offer was too good to refuse.
"It's a dream come true as far as I'm concerned."
"He will be making about $80,000 more than he is making here," Rendell said. He described Williams as a very fine commissioner who would be hard
Ann Reiss Lane
to replace.
The mayor-appointed Police Commission and Mayor Tom Bradley were withholding formal announcement of Gates' successor until a news conference this morning.
Williams arrived at Los Angeles International Airport late yesterday morning, but he got into a car waiting by his plane and avoided reporters gathered at the terminal.
Gates was named chief in 1978 and agreed last year to resign after the blue-ribbon Christopher Commission, led by former Assistant Secretary of State Warren Christopher, chronicled brutality and racism in the department.
Williams, president of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives, was the only nonLAPD finalist among the six interviewed by the Police Commission.
Commission members met with community leaders and police officers
in Philadelphia to discuss Williams' record last week.
"It's a dream come true as far as I am concerned," Los Angeles Commissioner Ann Reiss Lane said after the visit.
As chief of Philadelphia's 6,300-officer force since 1988, Williams promoted a community-based policing philosophy that stressed interaction with citizens. A similar brand of policing was recommended for the LAPD by the Christopher Commission.
As an example, Williams supervised storefront "ministations" where police and volunteers worked together on crime. Williams also was known for stricly disciplining officers for misconduct or brutality.
But as an outsider, he also faces the task of winning the trust of the Los Angeles police rank and file. The LAPD takes pride in exporting chiefs of police, not importing them, officers said.
Before the selection was announced, Capt. Charles Labrow, president of the LAPD's Command Officers Association, said that Williams would immediately face some tremendous problems, including morale.
The King beating was videotaped by a witness and broadcast repeatedly on national television. The fact that King is African American and the officers who beat him were white sparked racial tension in the city. Four officers are on trial in the beating.
173 decomposing, burned fetuses found in field once owned by doctor
The Associated Press
SHAWNEE, Okla. — Two passersby found 173 partially burned fetuses yesterday in a field formerly owned by a doctor, officials said.
Larry Balding, a pathologist with the state medical examiner's office, said it was likely the fetuses came from an abortion clinic. Suction-tube gauze containers were found with the fetuses, he said.
District Attorney Miles Zimmerman said it was unclear whether Oklahoma had a law governing the disposal of human fetuses.
State medical examiners identified 48 of the fetuses as human, with the oldest being 20 weeks old. It was not clear when medical examiners would finish examining the others, which were in varying states of decomposition.
The fetuses were found on a vacant property near Shawnee, about 35 miles east of Oklahoma City, said Assistant District Attorney Ed Terry. They were packed in double-plastic bags.
The medical examiner's office said it was not yet possible to tell how long the fetuses had been at the site.
Zimmerman said the field was owned until November 1991 by Nareshkumar Patel of Shawnee. Terry said Patel was listed in the Shawnee telephone book as an obstetrician-gynecologist.
"I don't know. I don't know that," Patel said when asked about the fetuses.
Oklahoma City television station KFOR said Patel told the station he had sent an associate to burn human tissues in an open field.
Prosecutors planned to try to inter view Patel last night.
Speech by
David Horowitz
David Horowitz is a bestselling author,political commentator and former radical.
During the 1960s, Horowitz was a co-founder of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and editor of the New Left magazine Ramparts.
Today Horowitz is a conservative and best selling author. His most recent books include Destructive Generation: Ex-Radicals Look Back on the Sixties and Deconstructing the Left.
"Deconstructing the Left"
Thursday, April 16 • 8 p.m. Woodruff Auditorium Kansas Union
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