The Mother Of All Street Crimes
July, 1991
Reporter's NotebookTime for an "I told you so" on police violence. Last September, I wrote a column about the loose tongue and deranged logic of L.A. police chief Daryl Gates that Playboy didn't publish because the guy was considered too local.Hey, I argued at the time, he is the top cop in the second biggest city in the U.S. Also, L.A. is the movie capital and its crime-stopping activities are embedded dogma, from Dragnet to L.A. Law. Well, now Gates is a nationally known figure with...
