Perhaps unsurprisingly, attacks on urban policemen paralleled the rise in violent rhetoric. From 1964 to 1969, assaults on Los Angeles patrolmen quintupled. In Detroit they rose 70% in 1969 alone.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, among others, has made similar comments in recent days. That’s familiar language, of course, but some officials are actually beginning to implement the ...

The extraordinarily high number of drunk arrests, not to be confused with drunken driving offenses, made by the Los Angeles police — more than 72,000 in 1964 and nearly 69,000 in 1965 — also ...

Los Angeles's William Parker was the archetype of the new breed of police chiefs. He had served during the war and became a captain overseeing the military occupation of areas conquered by the Allies.

When I served as counsel to Desilu Productions in the 1960s, I got to my office in Los Angeles early in the morning and stayed late at night. In this way, I met Sam Carr, who was a janitor at the s… ...

Omar Wasow was studying race and politics at Stanford University when on April 29, 1992, a jury acquitted the police officers ...