Twentieth Anniversary of the LA Riots and Reform at the LAPD
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This is the first in a week of special programs about the Rodney King riot of 1992, America's worst civil disturbance in the 20th Century. How did it happen? How has it shaped the city we know today? Our first topic is the Los Angeles Police Department.
Banner image: A Los Angeles police car burns in the street after being turned over by rioters 29 April 1992. Rioting broke out after the acquittal of four police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King in 1991. Photo credit should read STF/AFP/Getty Images
Guests:
- Charlie Beck: Los Angeles Police Department, @LAPDChiefBeck
- Joe Domanick: investigative journalist and author
- Kerman Maddox: First AME Church
- Connie Rice: Advancement Project in Los Angeles, @ConnieRicePCN
- Tim Rutten: journalist
- Skipp Townsend: 2nd Call, @SkippTownsend
- Hector Verdugo: Homeboy Industries
Links:
- Complete KCRW coverage of the 1992 riots
- USA v LAPD (federal consent decree in response to Rampart Area "incident")
- Mayor Villaraigosa on Summer Night Lights
- HACLA on Summer Night Lights
- Domanick's 'To Protect and To Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams'
- Wanda Coleman's poem 'Soon Ja' in included in her book, 'Mercurochrome'
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Which Way L.A.? is made possible in part by the Ralph M. Parsons Foundation, the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, the Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation, which supports study and research into policy issues of the Los Angeles region.
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