Our people went out every single night trying to stop crime before it happened, trying to take people off the street that they believed were involved in crime. That made us a very aggressive, proactive police department. — 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
