Audit Will Exonerate LAPD, Official Predicts
While looking forward to an upcoming management audit of the LAPD, the president of the Los Angeles Police Commission predicted Tuesday that the evaluation will prove that the department is an efficient organization and “absolutely free of corruption.”
“The chief as well as the commission is fully supportive and in accord” with the plans for the audit,” President Robert Talcott said of the audit, which was ordered by Mayor Tom Bradley.
Talcott also said the commission will undertake a deeper study into the use of “graphic language” by police officers, prompted by Chief Daryl F. Gates’ recent suggestion that casual drug users “ought to be taken out and shot.”
He said the commission will be addressing the question of what influence a police supervisor’s use of graphic language may have on how a beat officer carries out his duties. City Councilman Robert Farrell has suggested that such rhetoric may “incite” officers to act in an inappropriate manner.
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