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For the past twenty years one man has had full responsibility for supervising the enforcement of the law in one of the toughest cities in the Los Angeles. That man, who may know more about law enforcement than anyone else, is Chief Daryl F. Gates. Now for the first time, Gates tells the explosive story of his four decades in the LAPD in the same straightforward style that has earned him the reputation as America's most effective top cop. Creator of the first police SWAT team as well as the highly praised DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program, Daryl Gates has earned respect as an innovator and pioneer in law enforcement and as the chief of the most effective police department in the country. But his aggressive style of policing, his outspoken--sometimes outrageous--opinions on crime and criminals, and his clashes with the political elite and the media have made him no stranger to controversy. In Chief Gates looks back at the headline-making events in which he played a pivotal the Watts riots, shootouts with the Black Panthers and the SLA, the investigations of the death of Marilyn Monroe and the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, the Hillside Stra

Author

Gates, Daryl F., 1926-2010; Shah, Diane K

Publisher

New York: Bantam Books

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780553562057

Subjects

Social Science, Memoir, Biography

Rating

3.74 / 5 (70 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14