Los Angeles Police Department

The Los Angeles Police Department, in the 1800’s all the way to the start of the 90’s police brutality was an everyday situation. However, this only happened to minorities but there was a community that was target the most, the African Americans. African Americans were being severely injured by their community police. Nonetheless, one night of the year 1991 Rodney King was being pursued by the LAPD. Rodney was high on drugs, and stated that he had several reasons to why he wanted to loss the cops (The Cristopher Commission, 1996). Several minutes later, LAPD final cut up to him and made Rodney King stop. Immediately after the stop, the LAPD ordered King to get on the ground and too have his hands behind his head. With this, Rodney was indicating…

In Steve Herbert's, Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department, the author points out six definitive normative orders that are representative of how police officers within the Los Angeles Police Department perform their duties as officers of the law. Each normative order details a specific positionality albeit structural, bureaucratic or individual based on the police offer exercising the order. The normative orders reflect the wide-range of the ways officers delineate and maintain the…

The photographs taken from the Franklin home were released by the Los Angeles Police Department last week. The women’s faces in the photos looked like they were unconscious, asleep, or dead. These women were mothers, daughters, and sisters who had families that will never get their loved ones back. It was a abhorrent case that is part of history today. Women left behind children, spouses, and families. I cannot imagine what the women who were captured by this Lonnie Franklin. At this time the…

”They take great pride in protecting the public and their fellow law enforcement officers in life-and-death situations that put their years of training and experience to the test” (Inner body). Special Weapons and Tactics were first created in the 1960s by young commander Daryl Gates. LAPD team is the most talked about by many departments and people. It was created in Los Angeles after a couple of sniping incidents against civilians they feared gunman outperforming police in a shootout. The…

predetermined that this was a crime about racism. This is the same as when the townspeople thought Jim was the murderer. They didn’t look at the evidence to connect the dots, and they already blamed it on him, because Jim was black, but in this case, it’s because Wilson was white. If Wilson was black, this situation would not have happened. There would have been no big news story on the Ferguson shooting. By it being a white man who shot a black man it made it so that people could pin in as…

for the citizens of California, particularly those in the Los Angeles area and Wineville (now Mira Loma) community. During those past years, a series of horrendous abductions and murders took place by a man known as Gordon Stewart Northcott. These murders came to be known as the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders and persisted to grow into a broader dilemma as a significant mother, Christine Collins, raised concern over her missing son, Walter Collins. To further emphasize the horrors that were…

Rodney Glen King lll was an American taxi driver in Los Angeles, California. Tragically, he became nationally known after being identified as the victim, beaten by Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D) officers following a high- speed car chase. Due to the incident, it caused riots all over the nation. California in particular, was the initial place the riots started. Early Sunday morning around 12:30 on March 3, 1991, Rodney King, along with two additional passengers, Bryant Allen and…

with police brutality. “Police brutality is the use of excessive and/or unnecessary force by police when dealing with civilians” (S. Danilinaand). Although concerns about police brutality spiked after the Rodney King beating, police brutality has always been in the United States. “Police brutality has existed during the United States Industrial Revolution, the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and after the September 11 attacks.” (S. Danilinaand) The growing concerns of American citizens arose even…

actions. Many victims sued the law enforcement agency and were awarded/granted settlements. March 18, 1997 In 1997 officer Frank Lyga shot LAPD officer Kevin Gaines. Both Kevin and Frank were conducting undercover police work that night. Officer Frank and Kevin got into a verbal altercation at a red light. They both challenged each other for a fight. Frank shot Kevin allegedly in self defense. There was speculation that racism motivated the shooting. Kevin had a history of violence, criminal…

think he’ll die?’ The response was ‘No way! You or I, we’d die, but not a negro. They’re too dumb to go into shock.’ ” These were the words of Los Angeles Police officers in 1992, in this same year one of the most violent riots in American History occurred. Due to the discrimination of the minorities in Los Angeles the beating of one man becomes the push needed to send the minorities, mostly African Americans, in South Central over the cliff. After the severe beating of an African American man…