Bill Pavelic Speaking Out, William Bill Pavelic Exposing Racism and Racist Cops

In 1991, Bill Pavelic established himself as the foremost insider critic of racism and corruption in the LAPD.

In 1991, Bill Pavelic established himself as the foremost insider critic of racism and corruption in the LAPD.  

Bill Pavelic has been the subject of many articles nationally and internationally for speaking out against and exposing racism that he personally witnessed as a LAPD Detective.

On June 30, 1992, Bill Pavelic sent the following letter to the Los Angeles Sentinel concerning the institutionalized racism, corruption, and sexism, of the LAPD under Chief Daryl Gates’ leadership.


To: Los Angeles Sentinel Opinion Section

As a 19 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, I am elated that Chief Gates was forced into retirement. His corrupt managerial style, coupled with his inflammatory and intemperate public comments, have done irreparable damage to the City of Los Angeles and its police department.

Daryl Gates and his close associates are suffering from a disease called megalomania……an exaggerated belief in their own greatness and that of the organization. In order to maintain a mythical status of being “the best law enforcement agency in the world” the LAPD management developed a bunker mentality and consciously impeded and retarded investigations or inquiries which reflected poorly on the organization. The “us against them” mentality required faulty analysis which was oftentimes based on pseudo reasoning, clever fallacies and distorted or manufactured evidence.

The disciplinary system under the leadership of Daryl Gates lacked consistency, uniformity and equality and sent a deplorable signal to others on the force, that it is OK to falsify official investigations, violate the LAPD manual, discredit the Code of Ethics and be dishonest as long as you are a member of management or have friends at the top who will protect you even when prima facie evidence of a crime is clearly evident.

Chief Gates has failed to hold accountable personnel under his control who were acting under the color of law and were exercising illegal direction under the guise of official authority. In no sphere of public life is this practice more repugnant than in law enforcement. Chief Gates, who morally bankrupt the Los Angeles Police Department, forgot, or never knew, that true leadership can be gained only by an intolerance of wrong doing…and…unless we all abide by the highest standards among ourselves, we have no business enforcing the law upon others.

Chief Gates used the Internal Affairs Division to intimidate those officers who dared to speak out against Los Angeles Police Department’s institutionalized racism, corruption, sexism, mismanagement, promotional cronyism and other sensitive issues. If the Internal Affairs Division didn’t get these “disloyal” police officers, like the Russian KGB, the organization could always count on the Medical Liaison Unit to send these officers to the Department shrink…to certify them as functionally crazy.

Under the leadership of Chief Williams, respect for individual dignity will once again become an integral part of the Los Angeles Police Department’s philosophy…a philosophy that will be based on the principles of professionalism, reverence for the law and harmony between the police and the community it serves.

Respectfully,

Bill Pavelic, Southwest Division

2008/6/5

BY MICHELE CARUSO IN LOS ANGELES AND JERE HESTER IN NEW YORK

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@ 12:38 AM (17 months, 26 days ago)

Daily News (New York)

 

March 3, 1995, Friday

 

SECTION: News Pg.  3

 

LENGTH: 569 words

 

 

O.J. Simpson's alibi witness admitted yesterday that the football great's investigator coaxed her to push up the time she allegedly saw his white Ford Bronco. Rosa Lopez, who worked next-door to Simpson's mansion, testified that she saw the vehicle parked by his estate just after 10 p.m. the night the superstar's former wife and her pal were slain.

Under a fierce cross-examination, the Salvadoran maid indicated that Simpson gumshoe Zvonko Bill Pavelic asked her during an interview to jack up the time to 10:15 to 10:20 p.m. the time prosecutors believe the murders occurred.

"All I said was that it was after 10," a nervous Lopez said through a translator.

"So you don't know how long after 10?" prosecutor Christopher Darden asked.

"No, sir."

Asked by Darden whether Pavelic "suggested" that she saw the vehicle between 10:15 and 10:20, Lopez replied: "If that's what he's saying, that's fine."

Darden then asked: "Did you give him times and sometimes he said other times?"

Lopez replied, "If you say so, sir. It is correct."

Her initial version could have given Simpson time to make the 2-mile, six-minute drive to where Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman were slain on June 12.

In opening statements, the defense told jurors Lopez had seen the vehicle at 10:15 that fateful night.

The grueling cross-examination which took place without the jury turned bitter as Darden accused defense attorney Johnnie Cochran of using hand signals to coach the Salvadoran maid on the stand.

Clad in a snazzy outfit bought for her by the defense, Lopez was caught in contradiction after contradiction, and replied, "I don't remember, sir," to dozens of seemingly simple questions.

At one point, she said she could not recall the date, time of day or even the season of her first meeting with Pavelic last summer.

But in her testimony on Monday, Lopez painstakingly described how when the clock struck 10, she leashed her employer's dog and put on water for tea before going outside and seeing O.J.'s Bronco.

Under cross-examination, she conceded that she stuck tea water in the microwave for 90 seconds and didn't drink it before leaving. That would place her outside closer to 10 p.m.

The 57-year-old immigrant whose threats to flee the United States spurred Judge Lance Ito to order her testimony taped for future use also admitted that she had filed for unemployment on Feb. 15 and had considered staying in this country.

"If I was given unemployment, sir, there was no reason for me to leave the country," said Lopez, who said she used her son's address on the form.

Darden, though, spent most of the day chipping at inconsistencies in the July 29 interview that Pavelic conducted with Lopez, in a written report based on that session and in a report based on an Aug. 18 meeting.

Under fierce questioning, Lopez revealed that O.J.'s assistant Cathy Randa contacted her, told her to meet her on a side street and then drove her to the football star's office to meet Pavelic.

She also denied spending seven hours Saturday in Cochran's office, only to admit doing so minutes later.

But she denied that they discussed the case.

"He just tells me to tell the truth, sir," she told Darden.

After saying she couldn't remember what she did on Sunday, she recalled going on a defense-sponsored shopping spree, buying two dresses and two pairs of shoes.

 

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