Blue: The LAPD and the Battle to Redeem American Policing (59 page)

“no future . . . hasn’t got a chance in the world”
: Ibid.

A weak “disciplinarian” without a college degree
: “Tale of 2 Chiefs: Gates Takes Swipes As Williams Builds Bridges.”

“bunch of knucklehead liberals”
: “Willie Williams Takes Oath as New Police Chief.”

“one thing that sold
[
the
]
Los Angeles
[
Police Commission
]
on Williams”
: “Man in the News: Willie Lawrence Williams; An Astute Manager,”
NYT
, April 16, 1992.

“shocked” and “embarrassed as a police officer”
: “Police View L.A. Video and Note Problems Here,”
Philadelphia Inquirer
, March 24, 1991.

“seen pictures of Vietnam or Korea”
: Ibid.

“Our whole existence is to make sure”
: “Williams, in Tour of L.A., Promises Reforms, Healing.”

“Too many members of
[
this
]
Police Department”
: Willie Williams, “First Major Public Address”; “The New Chief: What’s Going to Change at the LAPD,” KCRW,
Which Way, L.A.?
June 16, 1992, accessed on April 3, 2015,
http://www.kcrw.com/news-culture/shows/which-way-la/the-new-chief-whats-going-to-change-at-the-lapd-1/#
.

“to apply the salve of cooperation”
: Ibid.

Two decades earlier, a black-Jewish coalition
: Gary Greenebaum interview; Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve
, 211–12.

“There was a whole sense, a kind of lament”
: Gary Greenebaum interview.

“There was not another person in the country”
: Ibid.

“In the midst of all that excitement”
: Ibid.

“Or you want the Dalai Lama? We wanted Willie Williams!”
: Ibid.

“We needed somebody from the outside”
: Ann Reiss Lane interview; “Officer Down, Willie Williams’ Fall from Grace”; “Say Goodbye to Hollywood.”

“There was definitely a preference for going outside”
: Anthony De Los Reyes interview.

all Democratic stalwarts
: “The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker: Stanley Sheinbaum, High-Level Kibbitzer, Mentor and Fund-Raiser for American Liberals,”
LAT
, June 28, 1987; “Commission Agonized over Choice of Outsider for Chief,”
LAT
, April 17, 1992; “Father of the Leftist Guard,”
Jewish Journal
, September 9, 2004.

Bill Parker was named chief in 1950
: “Leave Chief Parker Behind,”
LAT
, April 11, 2009.

“The police commission doesn’t run this police department”
: “LAPD—How Good Is It?,”
LAT
, December 18, 1977.

“already
had
more power than the mayor”
: “Why Chief Willie Williams Deserves Five More Years”; “Ed Davis Calls It Quits: ‘I Have Served Long Enough,’ ”
LAT
, January 29, 1992; “Chief Parker Molded LAPD Image—Then Came the ’60s,”
LAT
, May 25, 1992.

Democratic presidential hopefuls would fly three thousand miles
: “The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker: Stanley Sheinbaum, High-Level Kibbitzer, Mentor and Fund-Raiser for American Liberals.”

New York City Jewish boy turned dirt poor
: Ibid.

married a Hollywood rich girl
: Ibid.; “Father of the Leftist Guard.”

a would-be painter
: “The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker: Stanley Sheinbaum, High-Level Kibbitzer, Mentor and Fund-Raiser for American Liberals.”

political salons
: Ibid.

American Civil Liberties Foundation
: “Stanley Sheinbaum: Applying His ACLU Past to New Role on Police Commission,”
LAT
, March 22, 1992.

Daniel Ellsberg’s legal defense
: “The Man Who Would Be Kingmaker: Stanley Sheinbaum, High-Level Kibbitzer, Mentor and Fund-Raiser for American Liberals.”

divestment from apartheid South Africa
: “Father of the Leftist Guard.”

Yasser Arafat
: “Stanley Sheinbaum: Applying his ACLU Past to New Role on Police Commission”; “Commission Agonized over Choice of Outsider for Chief.”

phone call to Bradley
: “Commission Agonized over Choice of Outsider for Chief.”

Sheinbaum being named president of the commission
: “Stanley Sheinbaum: Applying his ACLU Past to New Role on Police Commission”; “Commission Agonized over Choice of Outsider for Chief.”

A wounded combat infantry captain
: Anthony De Los Reyes interview; Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve,
217.

the department’s first black motorcycle officer
: Ibid.

the department’s first African-American assistant chief
: “Black Officer Named Assistant Chief of LAPD,”
LAT
, November 20, 1987; “Jesse A. Brewer, Ex-Assistant Police Chief, Dies: LAPD: The Highest-Ranking African American When He Retired, He Was Force for Reform While on Police Commission,”
LAT
, November 20, 1995.

one of those men everybody liked
: “Naming Jesse Brewer to Commission Is Seen as a Deft Stroke by the Mayor,”
LAT
, July 18, 1991; “Jesse A. Brewer, Ex-Assistant Police Chief, Dies: LAPD: The Highest-Ranking African American When He Retired, He Was Force for Reform While on Police Commission”; “Central Los Angeles: Station Named for Brewer,”
LAT
, January 10, 1996; Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve
, 217.

Educated at Tuskegee
: “Jesse A. Brewer, Ex-Assistant Police Chief, Dies: LAPD: The Highest-Ranking African American When He Retired, He Was Force for Reform While on Police Commission”; Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve
, 217.

master’s degree in public administration from USC
: “Jesse A. Brewer, Ex-Assistant Police Chief, Dies: LAPD: The Highest-Ranking African American When He Retired, He Was Force for Reform While on Police Commission.”

left the Chicago PD
: Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve
, 217; Honorable Julian C. Dixon of California, “Tribute to Jesse A. Brewer,” U.S. House of Representatives,
Congressional Record
141, no. 186 (November 20, 1995).

after taking and passing the written exam
: Domanick,
To Protect and To Serve
, 217.

doctor notorious for regularly flunking black applicants
: Ibid.

Bradley too had been flunked . . . by the same doctor
: Ibid.

he too appealed, got reexamined
: Ibid.

written exam for lieutenant
: Ibid.

rejected by white oral boards
: Ibid.

made it on his fourth attempt, 1967
: Ibid.

But he left with a copy of a report he’d commissioned
: Ibid., 337–39.

Disrespect among officers was “out of control”
: Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department,
Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department
, 99.

“We know who the bad guys are”
: Ibid., 31–32; “Civilian Control of LAPD Is Elusive Despite Reforms,”
LAT
, November 14, 1999.

De Los Reyes came to regard him as “a saint”
: Anthony De Los Reyes interview.

Lane was “scrupulously honest”
: Ann Reiss Lane interview.

Mike Yamaki compared Brewer to . . . John Wooden
: Michael Yamaki interview.

“I could see the conflict in him”
: Ibid.

Jewish resident . . . Hancock Park
: “Last Panelist Selected for Seat on Police Commission,”
LAT
, July 20, 1991; “Lane Nominated to Panel,”
LADN
, July 20, 1991; “For Women, Gun Control Adds Up to Child Safety,”
LAT
, November 3, 1993.

graduated from Beverly Hills High School
: Beverly Hills High School, “Beverly Hills High School Thrives in Its 86th Year,”
Alumni: Beverly Hills Highlights
32 (2012): 2.

After also graduating from UCLA
: “Challenge Ahead for LA Police Board Member,”
Santa Cruz Sentinel
, August 1, 1991.

joined the League of Women Voters
: Ibid.

Tom Bradley . . . first campaign for mayor
: Ann Reiss Lane interview.

Leonard Nimoy
: Ibid.

burst into tears
: Ibid.

Los Angeles Fire Commission
: “Last Panelist Selected for Seat on Police Commission”; “Lane Nominated to Panel”; “New Police Commission Member Interested in Valley Stations, Women,”
LADN
, August 3, 1991.

Bradley appointed her to the Police Commission
: “Lane Nominated to Panel”; “New Police Commission Member Interested in Valley Stations, Women.”

Daryl Gates would pass her in the hallway
: Ann Reiss Lane interview.

“I have read
[
the Christopher Commission Report
]
”
: Ibid.

Gates . . . opposed to the feminist and gay rights movements
: Anthony De Los Reyes interview.

“he’d gotten complaints from female officers”
: Ibid.

His father was a Mexican musician of the Latin big-band sound
: Ibid.

come of age in East L.A.’s Lincoln Heights
: Ibid.

personal injury plaintiff’s lawyer
: Ibid.

supported Tom Bradley’s failed run for governor
: Ibid.

appointed to the city’s Civil Service Commission
: Ibid.

Bradley personally asked him to join the Police Commission
: Ibid.

“I had cops and others’ records”
: Ibid.

“masters of the half-truth”
: “Perspectives on the LAPD: Are We Doomed to Repeat the Past?”
LAT
, July 6, 1995.

“I had to ask very specific, precise questions”
: Anthony De Los Reyes interview.

Daryl Gates . . . “adamantly opposed” . . . gay festival
: Ibid.

when one officer publicly came out
: “A Gay Officer’s Lonely Patrol: Former Policeman Mitchell Grobeson’s Suit Against LAPD Raises Questions About What Makes a Good Cop,”
LAT
, April 28, 1989; “Gay Police Officer Who Sued LAPD over Bias Is Reinstated,”
LAT
, July 20, 1993; “Gay Cop’s 25-Year Battle with LAPD Rages On,”
Advocate
, February 22, 2013.