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...