Forum Newsfront

February, 1984

Test MeLos angeles--Sex with surveillance subjects may be a necessary duty of undercover cops, both to conceal their identity and to protect their lives, Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates has declared. Explaining that drug dealers, terrorists and radicals often are sleazy characters who live freewheeling lifestyles, he said that if he prohibited such sex in the line of duty, "there is no reason why every undercover officer would not be tested in that fashion." He added, "If I w...