Daryl Gates Quotes

• It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

  Andrew Hacker

  Topics in Honesty

  Tags in Integrity

• No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

  Daryl Gates

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wanted, Police

• 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

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Freedom, Person

• We were the finest. We were the best in the world. We were a department that people came from all over the world to study, to look at, to see how we accomplished so much with so little; and we did.

  Daryl Gates

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Best, Study

• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Users

• No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

  Daryl Gates

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Film

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Police

Daryl Gates (7)

Birth:	30th August, 1926
Death:	16th April, 2010
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Police Officer

About

Daryl Gates was born in Glendale, California. He was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992. As chief of police, he took a hardline, aggressive, paramilitary approach to law enforcement. Gates is co-credited with the creation of SWAT teams with LAPD's John Nelson, who others claim was the originator of SWAT in 1965. After the Rodney King beating and the riots afterward, Gates retired from the police department.

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