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A year before the riots took place, extensive telecast were made of the George Holiday video clip on the incident of LAPD officers beating Rodney King, and newspapers had brought out numerous articles attacking the LAPD. The 838 officers of LAPD deployed on duty at the time of the verdict were visualized to be demoralized and completely diffident to react. The incident has become memorable to the LAPD officers deployed actively at the time of the incident. While live coverage of the incident of beating the Reginald Denny and others to death by the LAPD officials and burning of their dwelling and businesses and telecast of the same persistently worried each and every LAPD officer. (The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: Lessons Learned, Changes Made)
At various moments this has been known as "LAPD's Vietnam' and 'the LAPD's Pearl Harbor'. Soon after the riots, the Webster Commission was instituted to probe into the inherent causes of the disturbances and to probe into the LAPD reactions to the riots. The LAPD also initiated a meticulous and the grave self-analysis of the reasons inherent in the riots and an evaluation of the deficiencies in our response. The consequences of the studies pointed out that the LAPD was dearth of essential personnel poorly equipped and not successful in reacting adequately at the imitation of the riot. (The 1992 Los Angeles Riots: Lessons Learned, Changes Made)
The complete eradication of crime is not possible through any antidote; however,...
It must be acknowledged by the LAPD that it is after all a service organization duty bound to extend the community with all types of lawful policing they require and warrant. The community denunciation of the crime is considered to be a stronger preventive in comparison to the police state strategies entailing sympathy for criminals. The effective enforcement necessitates that the Department should be aware as to the reasons of its being mistrusted being loosing the necessary trustworthiness and attempt to prevent it. (Reinventing the LAPD)
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Spillar, Katherine; Harrington, Penny. This Is What You Get When Men Rule Roost. Los Angeles Times. 18 February, 2000. Retrieved at http://www.womenandpolicing.org/oped021800.asp. Accessed on 22 January, 2005
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