>> darrell gates was the inheritor of an attitude, pardon me, in a succession of lapd chiefs.it started in 1950 and when he became chief he was heralded asc a great reformer and he was indeed a reformer because at that time, l.a. like many big-city police departments, was a department that was on thet take. if you were stops you would pay a curbside fine. they were taking money from gamblers and prostitution. it was a corrupt apartment in that way. he came in and said no, were not gonna do that anymore. this stops now. the now. the credo was, within the lapd after parker, if you get in trouble, if you're involved in a bad shooting or beat up somebody that needed to be beaten up, we will protect you, but if you take 1 penny your asses ours.e that has pretty much been the history of the lapd since then. so parker did something that i think started a lot of problems for the lapd. he agreed to have a small policr department on the cheap in that department would be mobile to cover these 300 or 400 square miles of l.a. and to be faceless in a patrol car looking around, not really ma