Police -- California -- Los Angeles -- History -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Alphonzo Bell papers
Collection
Identifier: 0215
Abstract
Alphonzo Bell, Jr. (1914-2004) was a United States Congressman who represented the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts - which encompassed the communities of Santa Monica, Pacific Palisades, Brentwood, Bel Air, and West Los Angeles - between 1961 and 1977. Materials within the collection date from the 1930s to the 1980s and document Bell's political career.
Dates:
1933-1987
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
R. Lee Heath scrapbook
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049037154]
Identifier: 7117
Abstract
Robert Lee Heath (1881-1974) joined the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in 1904 and rose through the ranks to serve as Chief of Police from 1924-1926. The R. Lee Heath scrapbook contains a total of more than 200 newspaper clippings and items of ephemera. Heath began this scrapbook in 1913, at about the time he was placed in command of the Boyle Heights division. He clipped newspaper articles written about or by police (e.g., "Officer Leo W. Marden Commanding the Juvenile Bureau...
Dates:
1913 - 1924
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records
Collection
Identifier: 0229
Abstract
The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a...
Dates:
1991
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Police Department collection
Collection
Identifier: 7118
Abstract
A collection of materials created by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for internal communications and external community relations relating to law enforcement. The collection contains eighteen issues of the LAPD's Daily Training Bulletin (1951-1952); the text of a 1955 speech by W. H. Parker titled "The Police Role in Community Relations" (printed in the form of an extended Daily Training Bulletin; an...
Dates:
1951 - 1968
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Police Department crime log book
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: 7063
Abstract
LAPD log book with handwritten entries detailing the work assignments, crimes covered, and property recovered for and by a few patrolmen for the year 1925. The log book begins with an alphabetical index, listing individuals from whom property was recovered, and ends with logs of expenses incurred. The bulk of the log book is daily entries on preprinted pages that allow the officers to identify captain, date, cases assigned, title and character of cases, cases closed, arrests, and to...
Dates:
1925
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Webster Commission records
Collection
Identifier: 0244
Abstract
On April 29, 1992, the city of Los Angeles erupted into riots after four LAPD officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King were acquitted of all criminal charges. The effects were catastrophic; in total, the chaos persisted for six days and resulted in 58 deaths, 2,383 injuries, and nearly a billion dollars in property damage. The extent of the human and material losses incurred from the riots, coupled with intense public scrutiny of the LAPD, led the Los Angeles Board of Police...
Dates:
1931 - 1992; Majority of material found within
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Richard M. Mosk Christopher Commission records
Collection
Identifier: 0395
Abstract
Chaired by attorney Warren Christopher, the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed in the wake of the 1991 videotaped beating of Rodney King by several LAPD officers. The collection consists of files kept by Richard M. Mosk in his capacity as a member of the Commission.
Dates:
1989-2000
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Gregory Freeman Stone collection on the Robert F. Kennedy assassination
Collection
Identifier: 0241
Abstract
The collection includes files accumulated by Gregory Freemen Stone during his investigation into the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Dates:
1944 - 1992
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections