• Daryl Francis Gates (born Darrel Francis Gates; August 30, 1926 – April 16, 2010) was an American police officer who served as chief of the Los Angeles Police Department...
    • Daryl Gates in Daryl Gates and Casey the Safety Car (1986)
    • Daryl Gates in Bank Robbery 211 in Progress (1986)
    • Daryl Gates in Baker to Vegas Run (1985)
  • In 1965, as a police field commander, future Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl F. Gates watched the devastation wrought during the Watts riots and learned...
  • Daryl Gates was defiantly undiplomatic. The longtime Los Angeles police chief once told a Senate committee that “casual drug users should be taken out and shot.”
  • Daryl Gates was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 to 1992.
  • Daryl Gates was an American public servant who served as the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992.
  • Daryl Gates was an American law enforcer who headed the Los Angeles Police Department for 14 years, starting from 1978.
  • During his tenure as chief, Gates was known for advocating a strong police presence-increasing the number of police officers on the streets and introducing...
  • Daryl Gates, who has died of bladder cancer, aged 83, did not create the modern LAPD.
  • The former Los Angeles police chief, Daryl Gates, who died last Friday of cancer at his home in California, is being widely credited in mostly laudatory newspaper...