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title: "7 Angeles Police Quotes by 7 authors"
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> [“In 1935, the Los Angeles Police Department, via mayoral directive, sends a battalion of police officers to the Nevada border to stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-frey/in-1935-the-los-angeles-police-department-via-mayoral-directive-sends/)

[James Frey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-frey/)

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> [In Los Angeles, the Police Department buys a 40-foot refrigerated trailer truck every six months just to hold DNA evidence.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-dedman/in-los-angeles-the-police-department-buys-a-40-foot-refrigerated/)

[Bill Dedman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bill-dedman/)

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> [It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daryl-gates/it-was-a-department-where-you-had-honesty-and-integrity-stamped-right/)

[Daryl Gates](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daryl-gates/)

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> [I know how young black men are seen. They're boys - scared little boys, oftentimes. I was one of them. I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kehinde-wiley/i-know-how-young-black-men-are-seen-they-re-boys-scared-little-boys/)

[Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kehinde-wiley/)

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> [Is that a pistol in your pocket or are you just glad to see me? (She made this remark in February 1936,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mae-west/is-that-a-pistol-in-your-pocket-or-are-you-just-glad-to-see-me-she/)

[Mae West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mae-west/)

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> [If the Los Angeles Police Department had enough officers, it could focus on one part of the community and stay there long…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/greg-boyle/if-the-los-angeles-police-department-had-enough-officers-it-could/)

[Greg Boyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/greg-boyle/)

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> [The Board of Inquiry report fails to recognize that the central problem in the Los Angeles Police Department is the culture. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/erwin-chemerinsky/the-board-of-inquiry-report-fails-to-recognize-that-the-central/)

[Erwin Chemerinsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/erwin-chemerinsky/)

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