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Daryl F. Gates

American chief of police

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Los Angeles Riots of 1992

In Los Angeles Riots of 1992
>Daryl Gates, Los Angeles’s controversial police chief—who was later taken to task for his response to the riots in an official investigation headed by William Webster, former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation—was forced to resign. Also in the wake of the riots, a…
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Rampart scandal

In Rampart scandal
…department, then headed by Chief Daryl Gates, created a group of elite antigang units called CRASH (Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums). The type of officers who were selected for those units were those not afraid to talk to gang members; Gates intended the officers to mix with gang members in…
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