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- NATION, Page 27American NotesLAW ENFORCEMENTSuch Sweet Sorrow
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- Some folks just can't take a hint. Critics have demanded the
- ouster of Los Angeles police chief Daryl Gates ever since the
- brutal beating of a black motorist by white L.A.P.D. officers
- last March was videotaped and aired repeatedly on national TV.
- When a commission headed by former Deputy Secretary of State
- Warren Christopher recommended new leadership for the force in
- early July, Gates said he had no intention of "running away."
- Later, when two members of the city council announced that
- Gates had agreed to retire by the end of this year, the chief
- suggested he might keep his job until 1993.
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- Last week Gates finally announced that he will turn in his
- badge next April. "Maybe that'll stop all the nonsense," he said
- in an emotional videotaped message to his 8,300 officers. But
- Gates, who turns 65 this month and has been chief for 13 years,
- also declared that he would stay on if a successor is not
- named. Mayor Tom Bradley, who has often sparred with Gates, said
- the city should have no problem finding a replacement.
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