The Nation - News from April 13, 1988

Dallas Police Chief Billy Prince said he is quitting a department in turmoil over public accountability, the treatment of minorities and slayings of officers in a city he claims breeds cop-haters. “I woke up Easter Sunday and just didn’t feel good about returning,” Prince said at a news conference. “I told my wife then, ‘I think it’s time for me to go.’ ” Prince, 45, said he was stepping down immediately but would serve in an advisory role through the summer. City Manager Richard Knight appointed first Assistant Police Chief Louie C. Caudell as interim chief in the nation’s seventh-largest city. In recent months, Prince, who came into office six years ago, had come under fire for criticizing City Council members and opposing efforts to increase the accountability of a department embattled over recent police shootings of black residents.