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

2007/10/18

Denny pretrial action brings another delay

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Los Angeles Times

April 9, 1993, Friday, Home Edition

denny pretrial action brings another delay;
COURT: JUDGE POSTPONES HEARING ON DEFENSE MOTION ALLEGING DISCRIMINATORY PROSECUTION. ATTORNEY CONTRASTS BEATING CHARGES TO THOSE IN KING CASE.

BYLINE: By EDWARD J. BOYER, TIMES STAFF WRITER

SECTION: Metro; Part B; Page 3; Column 5; Metro Desk

LENGTH: 535 words

A defense attorney wanted former Dist. Atty. Ira Reiner arrested. A prosecutor warned against opening a Pandora's box and creating a circus. And a lawyer for Sgt. Stacey C. Koon said he would advise his client to take the 5th Amendment.

So went the proceedings Thursday in a pretrial hearing for three men charged in the as-sault on trucker Reginald O. Denny. When all of the skirmishing was over, Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderkirk postponed for three weeks the hearing on a defense motion alleging discriminatory prosecution.

Attorney Edi M. O. Faal, who represents defendant Damian Monroe Williams, had subpoe-naed Reiner to ask him why the Denny defendants face more serious charges than those filed against the police officers who beat motorist Rodney G. King.

Noting that Reiner was not in the courtroom, Faal asked that the judge issue a bench war-rant for his arrest. Prosecutors pointed out that Reiner was in the building and called him on the telephone. Ouderkirk denied Faal's request and scheduled testimony from Reiner on May 28 when the hearing is scheduled to resume.

Prosecutors earlier had taken issue with Faal over the relevance of testimony from other witnesses he has subpoenaed -- former Dist. Atty. John K. Van de Kamp; former Los Angeles Police Detective Bill Pavelic; Deputy Dist. Atty. Terry White, who prosecuted the state case against the officers who beat King, and attorney Stephen Yagman, who has sued several law enforcement agencies for excessive force.

Faal also had subpoenaed Koon, one of four officers facing federal charges of violating King's civil rights. But Los Angeles Police Protective League General Counsel Enrique A. Her-nandez, who represented Koon at the hearing, said in court Thursday that he would advise the sergeant to exercise his 5th Amendment right against self-incrimination if called to testify be-fore the federal case ends.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Lawrence C. Morrison, one of two prosecutors on the case, accused de-fense attorneys of opening a Pandora's box by creating a "parade of disgruntled police officers and civil rights attorneys" without first establishing the relevance of their testimony.

For his part, Faal said the prosecution does not want a public hearing on discriminatory prosecution because "they do not want some of the things that will be said disseminated" by the media.

Defense attorneys maintain that the defendants in the Denny beating are being charged more severely than the officers who beat King because the Denny defendants are black and the officers are white.

Attorney J. Patrick Maginnis, who represents defendant Antoine Miller, said Morrison and a Los Angeles police detective said Miller committed no violent acts against Denny. Yet Miller is charged with attempted murder.

Miller and Williams, both 20, and Henry Keith Watson, 28, face multiple felony charges arising from their alleged involvement in the attack on Denny as violence erupted last April 29 after the officers were acquitted on all but one charge in the King beating.

On Wednesday, Ouderkirk postponed their trial until mid-July. Miller, who originally balked at waiving his right to a speedy trial, agreed to the delay Thursday.

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