No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

This tendency a logical extension of the policies implemented by Parker that discouraged LAPD officers from becoming too enmeDaryl Gatesd in the communities in which they served did not serve him well politically: allegations of arrogance and racism plagued the department throughout his tenure surfacing most strongly in the Christopher Commission report. On April 16 2010 Gates died at his home in Dana Point California at the age of 83 after a battle with bladder cancer. )


LAPD career
He joined the LAPD on September 16 1949.

Gates is often credited with the creation of SWAT teams and DARE. These aggressive tactics were highly controversial.