Scope and Contents Eighteen issues of the LAPD's Daily Training Bulletin (1951-1952) issued by the Field Training Unit of the LAPD early in the tenure of Chief William H. Parker. These bulletins cover a variety of practical topics for use in day-to-day policing, including How to Arrest on a Warrant, How to Make Juvenile Arrests, How to Search a Car, How to Recognize Narcotics Violations, and How to Hand Repossession Disputes. The bulletins were distributed to officers each day...

Scope and Contents Parker, W.H. The Police Role in Community Relations. Los Angeles: LAPD, 1955. Text of a speech delivered to the National Conference of Christians and Jews, May 19, 1955. Printed in the form of an extended Daily Training Bulletin (Volume IV, Bulletin 41) for distribution to all members of the Department. LAPD Chief William H. Parker is credited with reducing corruption and professionalizing his department, but his tenure was also marked by racial tension and...

Scope and Contents Los Angeles Police Department. Chairman Khrushchev's Visit, September 19, 20, 1959. [Los Angeles], 1959. Original operational handbook for internal use by LAPD personnel, detailing the extensive security plan for Nikita Khrushchev's 1959 visit to Los Angeles. Includes several maps and plans, drawings of identification lapel pins, press passes, and vehicle identification cards. Khrushchev's 13-day visit to the United States was the first State visit from a Soviet leader. In a radio address...

Scope and Contents Reddin, Thomas. Law Enforcement in a Complex Society. General Telephone Company of California, [1968]. Text of an address given by LAPD Chief Thomas Reddin at a Town Hall meeting in Long Beach in July, 1968. Reddin wrestles with the extreme challenges faced by the police in "an age of discord, discontent, and unrest," when "almost every legal and social and governmental philosophy has recently changed, is in the process of change, or is being attacked by some group" and "defiance of the...