“The good people are at home and what you have out there are people who wanted an excuse to steal,” said Daryl F. Gates in an interview televised during the 1992 Los Angeles riots ...

LOS ANGELES (CBS/AP) Daryl Gates, the lightning rod Los Angeles police chief whose career will be forever linked to Rodney King and the city's deadly 1992 riots, has died after a short battle with ...

Daryl Gates, chief of police in Los Angeles during the 1992 riots that tore apart much of the city, has died, the Associated Press reports. It gets that word from Los Angeles Police Department ...

Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing ... into early retirement after the riots. He was credited with developing the policing plan that brought off the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics with not so much as ...

Former Police Chief Daryl F. Gates cast a long shadow ... and ended with his forced resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Through it all, he was an extraordinarily polarizing figure.

LOS ANGELES — Daryl F. Gates, the polarizing former police chief whose 14-year tenure ended amid widespread criticism over his department's response to the city's deadly 1992 riots, died Friday ...

It was led by Chief Daryl Gates, an authoritarian who ruled from ... Considered's series of reports on the 25th anniversary of the Los Angeles riots.

"Los Angeles has suffered a great loss....Chief Gates was a ... "If I was to name those riots, I would call them the Daryl Gates riots." Joe Domanick, author of "To Protect and To Serve,” a history of ...

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- The documentary "Let It Fall" takes a hard look at the L.A. riots of 1992 ... Police Department's chief at the time, Daryl Gates, comes under fire in the film from one ...

Daryl Gates ruled the Los Angeles Police Department as if he were God ... And the city charter from 1922 and until after the Rodney King riots gave police officers a property interest in their jobs, a ...

The match that set off the 1992 LA Riots was struck when a videotape ... It was Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates and his violent programs of police enforcement like the infamous Operation ...

LOS ANGELES — Daryl F. Gates, the blunt former Los Angeles police ... his handling of the Rodney King police beating and ensuing riots forced him to retire, died Friday of cancer.