They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And under certain circumstances, they have the authority to take a person's life. — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason. — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
They have the ability to take a person's freedom from them. On certain situations, they have the ability to take a person's reputation. And… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life. — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed… — Daryl Gates Copy Share Image
