LAPD’s Image
The subhead (Jan. 21) to staff writer Richard A. Serrano’s article concerning the Los Angeles Police Academy post-Watts riot graduating class of recruits of 1965 declares “The academy’s graduates in 1965 had to rebuild the department’s image after the Watts riots.”
I was the commanding officer of the Los Angeles Police Academy from 1962 to mid-1966. The graduating recruits were under no obligation to rebuild the department’s image since we did not believe it had been tarnished.
SID BARTH
Commander, LAPD, (Ret.)
Rolling Hills Estates
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