Read Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing Online

Authors: Joe Domanick

Tags: #West (AK, #MT, #HI, #True Crime, #Law Enforcement, #General, #WY), #NV, #Corruption & Misconduct, #United States, #ID, #Criminology, #History, #Social Science, #State & Local, #CA, #UT, #CO, #Political Science

Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (69 page)

“You’re no longer going to be permitted”
: Ibid.

“Folks that were lawless liked [L.A.’s] Skid Row”
: Ibid.

“ ‘Where’d the homeless all go?’ ”
: Ibid.

“that was way too many rules”
: Ibid.

“At some point . . . Americans decided”
: “The Myth of Police Reform,”
Atlantic
, April 15, 2015.

Kevin Lamar Evans, a homeless thirty-three-year-old
: “How California Failed Kevin Evans.”

schizophrenic with cerebral palsy
: Ibid.

died of cardiac arrest
: Ibid.

strap-down room in the Twin Towers jail
: Ibid.

baloney sandwich
: Ibid.

“Don’t be giving any food away”
: Ibid.

convinced he was possessed by Satan
: Ibid.

incarcerated there at least four times
: Ibid.

cited or arrested on thirteen different occasions
: Ibid.

Lancaster and Palmdale
: Ibid.

six-deputy Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department unit
: Ibid.

“to deal with loitering, prostitution”
: Ibid.

“over 100 volunteers”
: “Ibid.

ticketed for loitering in a Lancaster shopping center
: Ibid.

one of at least four . . . “incompetent to stand trial”
: Ibid.

“how he died was just not that surprising”
: Ibid.

judge Richard E. Spann . . . had “no idea” who Evans was
: Ibid.

Spann had ruled in three thousand custody cases
: Ibid.

“no independent recollection of him”
: Ibid.

fifteen hundred chronically homeless people
: “L.A. Will Pay $725,000 to Lawyers Who Stopped Skid Row Police Sweeps,”
LAT
, September 10, 2014.

fifty-eight thousand homeless had drug and/or alcohol addictions
: “How to Prevent a Skid Row Death,”
LAT
, March 5, 2015.

“issue an anguished call for help”
: “On Skid Row, Sweeping Change Adds to Distrust.”

David O’Connell has been a Los Angeles priest for twenty-three years
: “The Reformer, on Honeymoon,”
LAT
, January 19, 2003.

pastor of two Catholic churches
: Ibid.

“A week and a half ago, a member of our parish”
: Ibid.

bridge by a school in East L.A.’s Lincoln Heights
: Ibid.

“People live like cockroaches around here”
: Ibid.

eighteen CRASH units had been disbanded by Bernard Parks in 2000
: “Chief Parks Orders Current Anti-Gang Units Disbanded,”
LAT
, March 4, 2000; “Chief of Los Angeles Police Disbands Antigang Units,”
NYT
, March 4, 2000.

“there are so many wounds to heal”
: “The Reformer, on Honeymoon.”

“they don’t trust the police”
: Ibid.

“horrendous activities of the officers in Rampart CRASH”
: Ibid.

“Senior Lead Officer” community policing program
: Ibid.

“without getting his signature”
: Ibid.

“You’ll have access to me on a scheduled basis”
: Ibid.

heading to a private home in Brentwood . . . speaking to the ACLU
: Ibid.

“He’s Code Green at the hospital”
: Ibid.

“today’s the wife’s birthday”
: Ibid.

“feel the pain of the family, of the city”
: Ibid.

“Chief . . . We got another one”
: Ibid.

“You need a scorecard”
: Ibid.

“Looks like the ACLU’s doing all right for itself”
: Ibid.

“I’m being asked to try to reinvigorate”
: Ibid.

“no shortage of people who want to get involved”
: Ibid.

“a commonality of concern”
: Ibid.

“That L.A. Metro group had a very realistic understanding”
: Ibid.

William Bratton, James Hahn, and Clive Jackson, December 2002, South Los Angeles

“Stop the Killing. Choose Life, Not Death”
: “The Reformer, on Honeymoon,”
LAT
, January 19, 2003.

South Central community center
: Ibid.

Clive Jackson, Jr. . . . shot dead
: Ibid.

“The gangs of Los Angeles”
: Ibid.

letter dated November 13, 2002
: Ibid.

“Rosetta stone effect”
: Ibid.

“gang-related” homicides in Los Angeles County from 1980 to 2000
: “Gang Homicides in Los Angeles County, 1980–2006,” Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, Los Angeles Police Department, Los Angeles Department of Coroner, California Department of Health Services—Center for Health Statistics, November 10, 2008.

“an unchecked intra-tribal war”
: Hayden,
Street Wars
.

“domestic terrorists”
: “Black Leaders Caution Chief,”
LAT
, December 14, 2002; “Can William Bratton Turn Around the Big Apple Again?”
LAT
, December 6, 2013.

“a disease”
: William Bratton interview; “The Reformer, on Honeymoon.”

“more of a national threat than
[
was
]
the Mafia”
: “The Reformer, on Honeymoon.”

“Al Capone is not what we’re dealing with here”
: “For Los Angeles’s New Police Chief, a New World,”
NYT
, December 6, 2002.

“shoot-from-the-hip” analysis
: Ibid.

George Gascon, 2002, Los Angeles Police Department Headquarters

Nor, thought Bill Bratton, was he the kind of person “who would please you with a lie”
: William Bratton interview.

“Go into Bill’s office”
: Rikki Klieman interview.

“Do it and you’ll get what you want”
: Ibid.

Gascon . . . met with Bratton
: Ibid.

Gascon . . . new curriculum
: “He Said No to Naysayers,”
LAT
, June 4, 2004.

arrived in the U.S. with his parents in 1967
: Ibid.; George Gascon interview.

political refugee from Cuba
: Ibid.