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Thursday, October 22, 1992
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NATION/WORLD UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
LA police's riot reaction was poor, report says
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Former police chief Daryl Gates and members of the city government were compared to a dysfunctional family whose lack of communication crippled the ability to respond to the spring riot, an investigative panel reported today.
The group's extensive report, quickly branded by Gates as the work of "iliars," also blamed the ex-chief's leadership style for paralyzing his command staff, which was unwilling and unable to make decisions needed to quell the violence that broke out April 29 in the wake of the Rodney King beating trial.
"The chief of police, in particular, did not take personal command of the department's response as he seemingly should have, given the seriousness and confusion of the situation," the report said.
The report, prepared at the request of the city's civilian Police Commission by a volunteer staff of 100 people,
blasted the police department and other branches of city government for failing to be prepared.
"Neither the city nor the LAPD had a real plan for what to do in this emergency," the report declared.
The committee, headed by former FBI and CIA Director William Webster and Hubert Williams, president of the Washington-based Police Foundation, said the city council, Mayor Tom Bradley and the city administrative officer failed to fulfill their duties of seeing that an emergency preparedness plan was in place.
"I haven't read the report, but I can just tell you that both Hubert Williams and William Webster — and I make this charge — are liars," Gates told radio station KFWB.
The report traced the seeds of violence back to the city's lack of response to community problems in the wake of the March 1991 beating of King, a black motorist. The not broke up just after four white police officers were acquitted of most charges in the case.
The report said it had become uncult to tell who in city government was responsible for what the city did or did not do.
"Such was the case in the period of time leading up to the April violence when Los Angeles city government resembled nothing so much as a dysfunctional family," the report said.
The report suggested that the outspoken Gates, who retired in June, intimidated his subordinates, who feared criticizing the chief or demanding more training and preparation.
It cited an incident in which a deputy chief reminded Gates during a meeting about the need for a riot plan. The deputy chief was reprimanded for the reminder, it said.
It also faulted Bradley for not making sure the city had a riot plan and criticized him and Gates, a longtime foe, for not speaking to each other for an entire year before the riots.
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