Los Angeles Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
General Manager of the City of Los Angeles' Department of Neighborhood Empowerment
PROFILE
Bonghwan Kim
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FROM Bonghwan Kim
Which Way, L.A.?
LA Before It Erupted The Rodney King beating was videotaped by a bystander and broadcast on newscasts worldwide. Two weeks later, a 15-year-old black girl, Latasha Harlins, was shot to death by a Korean-American liquor-store owner, Soon Ja Doo. That incident was also videotaped by a surveillance camera and was repeatedly broadcast.
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A Second Look at Neighborhood Councils Created by charter reform eight years ago, eighty-nine neighborhood councils have been formed to encourage participation in civic affairs. Without any authority to make policy, they’ve fought a losing battle against bureaucratic inertia and struggled to make any impact on the fifteen members of the City Council.
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