Counterparts Transit Police never seem to be around when you wish there were and when they were too could not notice the slump of the shoulders sanders to shell filled appearance in showy the disillusionment with their job. When i arrived in los angeles and was astounded how different they were. First was clear they had not given up. The tailored motorcycle officers looked like the prototype model that they were for the film robo cop and acted the part. Like the rest of the lapd trained to seek out crime and confront and command a suspect in the aloof and intimidating and every commander. Even if the suspect only committed a minor infraction or done nothing at all wrong, that attitude alone seemed to start more trouble than it stopped and if you were black it was worse and more frequent. Every politician in in town seemed to kowtow to do the lapd to get into a public spat with a succession of chiefs number not afraid of anyone for cry wanted to understand the source of their extraordin
Youve commuted communicated something to them and them to us maybe two. So thats 11 part of this changing world. Its not just the docket. Its the world world that has changed. Youre not there because, our opportunities are not a function of individuals and their not a function of one philosophy or another philosophy. They are a function of a world thats changing and has changed and thats the point i want to get across because those are the challenges that i think, in part, we have to deal with. That is an inspiring note on which to end. What you have told us is that all citizens, not only america or around the world have an obligation to educate themselves about the constitution by listening to each other and divergent points of view. By bringing bringing people together and respecting the arguments on both sides you are suggesting they can learn from each other. That is what you were trying to do in this book and thats what were trying to do at the National Constitution center. I thin
Was going to make. The reason why ultimately chief parks didnt get rehired is because mayor jimmy haun in an act of political courage we havent always seen in this city, decided that he didnt want to see bernie parks retired, and thats the rehired, not because the Police Commission made the decision but jimmy haun cost himself the next election. How hard was it to for you to get information . How difficult was it for you to tell some captain to do this thing and unless you wrote it down and you kept after it, you got it. Its very, very difficult, and when youre parttime, and the the name of the judge, federal judge on the ninth circuit right now yeah, line rhinehart, called them the masters of the half truth. Has that been your experience . This is simple for me. Commissioners need training. They nigh need training to know when theyre being bull shitted, and training to know its not a level situation. Youre climbing a hill like this. Human nature doesnt want oversight. Human nate tower
To build the infrastructure to allow that to happen. Thank you, shanae. I want to thank dale [applause] i want to thank Dale Russakoff for a very accessible treatise on what has been going on in the Public Education sector in newark over the last several years. Her book is a very interesting read, and i think the opportunity to meet her here and to hear her talk about her book was also very, very important. Dale will be signing in the gallery, so if you will line up the righthand side you will be in line for the book signing. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] you are watching the tv, television for serious readers. Watch any program you see here online at the tv. Org. Next on the book tv, investigative journalist joe domenick chronicles americas policing from the 1990s. Follow the beating of rodney king in the late rights through 2014, that even some new york city and ferguson, missouri. We are here today to talk abo
Follow the beating of rodney king in the late rights through 2014, that even some new york city and ferguson, missouri. We are here today to talk about and interesting and extremely important subject, policing and the relationship to read i cannot think of anything that is more timely. You cannot pick up the paper or watching the news about learning more about things in wondering about, you know, where things are going. One of the things i my previous life, i was a historian at the university of wisconsin and the university of ucla in one of the reasons i like history is because i always used to look at history in the past to try to figure out whats going on in the present and maybe get a sense of where we are going in the future and i think we will be able to do that right with a great book by joe domenick, the book blue. We will hear from joe and the Police Commissioner in 2010 in 2013 and they will talk a bit about lapd in the history of it and then im going to bring my friend in, m