Epilogue

2018 ◽  
pp. 239-248
Author(s):  
Max Felker-Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Urban Politics ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Community Resources ◽  
Consent Decree ◽  
Wide Spread ◽  
Police Power ◽  
Los Angeles Police Department ◽  
New Era ◽  
Police Authority

Not until the Rampart Scandal (the exposure of wide- spread corruption in the LAPD’s Rampart anti-gang Community Resources against Street Hoodlums unit) in the late 1990s led to a federal consent decree did the LAPD face rigorous oversight. While leading to a new era in the LAPD’s history, such oversight also opened possibilities for expanded police authority because decades of get-tough policies embedded police power in urban politics. As the conclusion to Policing Los Angeles, this chapter demonstrates the continued operation of the police power as well as the ways activists and residents in Los Angeles have continued to push for reform and restructuring of the Los Angeles Police department.

Daily Training Bulletin of the Los Angeles Police Department

1958 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 293
Author(s):  
R. L. Holcomb ◽  
Field Training Unit ◽  
W. H. Parker
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Los Angeles Police Department ◽  
Daily Training

Introduction

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Max Felker-Kantor
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Public Welfare ◽  
Central Question ◽  
Police Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Police Authority ◽  
American Society ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
American Cities ◽  
Police Practices

Between the 1960s and 1990s, the police power in Los Angeles intensified. Police power was not incidental or supplemental, but constitutive of postwar city politics and authority. The introduction outlines the central question of the book: how and why this could happen after the Watts uprising of 1965 exposed the racism at the heart of the police power, decades of pressure from an active anti–police abuse movement, and under the twenty-year rule of a liberal administration that sought to control and regulate police behavior. Tracing the racism at the heart of the police power reveals the historical consequences of expanded police authority. Relying on the police to manage social problems of crime, violence, and drugs led to disciplinary practices of surveillance, harassment, and arrest that criminalized and excluded African American and Latino/a residents. In the process, as antipolice activists pointed out and struggled against, the police often deemed residents of color as not only potential threats to the public welfare but also unfit for full benefits of social membership in American society. Police practices thereby produced racialized definitions of criminality and enforced the city’s hierarchical racial order. As a result, the struggle over policing structured and exacerbated deep cleavages in American cities over race, citizenship, politics, and state power.

Operations of the Los Angeles Police Department Threat Management Unit and Crisis Support Response Section

2021 ◽  
pp. 454-470
Author(s):  
Brian S. Bixler ◽  
Jeffrey Dunn ◽  
Traci Grundland
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Workplace Violence ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Police Department ◽  
Threat Assessment ◽  
Los Angeles Police Department ◽  
High Profile ◽  
Successful Case ◽  
Crisis Support ◽  
Jurisdictional Control

The Los Angeles Police Department has developed a systematic approach to investigating and managing cases involving stalking, workplace violence, and threats to high-profile individuals, including celebrities and elected officials. The authors note that there is no checklist or “one size fits all” formula to successfully manage these cases. From the law enforcement perspective, successful case management comes from experience, a fundamental understanding of threat assessment principles, in-depth familiarity with applicable laws, and knowing the available resources within jurisdictional control. This chapter explores the nuances inherent in investigations of this type, the necessity to integrate multiple avenues of prevention and intervention, and the critical role that mental health plays.

Bloody Christmas and the Irony of Police Professionalism: The Los Angeles Police Department, Mexican Americans, and Police Reform in the 1950s

2003 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward J. Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Mexican Americans ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
Police Department ◽  
City Government ◽  
Civilian Control ◽  
Police Reform ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Los Angeles Police Department ◽  
The Rule Of Law

On December 25, 1951, approximately fifty Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) officers brutally beat seven young men in their custody, including five Mexican Americans. The ensuing controversy became known as Bloody Christmas. Mexican American activists demanded investigations into allegations of police brutality and LAPD accountability to civilian control. The LAPD's new chief, William Parker, however, had just launched a reform campaign based on the police professionalism model, which stressed police autonomy, particularly about internal discipline. Parker and his allies in city government stifled external investigations into department matters, vilified LAPD critics, and even ignored perjury by officers. They thus helped create an organizational culture that valued LAPD independence above the rule of law and led to the LAPD's estrangement from Mexican American and other minority communities.

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