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Has the Federal Consent Decree Improved the LAPD?
Budget cuts will prevent the LA Police Department from continuing to grow, but Chief Bill Bratton says it shouldn't be cut at all. He also wants out from under a federal consent decree imposed after the Rampart scandal. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope and the future of manned space flight.
By Warren Olney • • 52m ListenA recent report says the Los Angeles Police Department has lived down the Rampart Scandal and Rodney King beating. Should a federal consent decree come to an end? Should the police be exempted from budget cuts facing every other department? We talk with the Chief and others. On our rebroadcast of today's To the Point, the astronauts are ready to come back to Earth on Friday. We hear about upgrading the Hubble Space Telescope, what age-old questions it's now prepared to address and whether manned space flight has a future.
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: STF/AFP/Getty Images
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2 storiesThe Hubble and the Future of Space Exploration
The repairs are done, the spacewalking is over and the Shuttle Atlantis has disengaged from the Hubble Space Telescope .
Read the story27 minHas the Federal Consent Decree Improved the LAPD?
After the Rodney King beating in 1991 and the Rampart corruption scandal of 1999, the federal Department of Justice threatened to sue the Los Angeles Police Department over a pattern and practice of misconduct. The compromise was a “ consent decree ,” which gave a federal court the authority to monitor reforms.
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