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Criminal

Oct. 6, 2000

Feess Not Ideal Choice to Oversee Consent Decree

If Judge Gary Allen Feess oversees the Rampart consent decree, the LAPD will never be reformed.

        By Stephen Yagman

        At long last, a federal consent decree to reform the Los Angeles Police Department is at hand. Nine long years after Warren Christopher and his commission took up Mayor Tom Bradley's charge to investigate the LAPD because it was "facing a crisis of confidence," Mayor Richard Riordan and LAPD Chief Bernard C. Parks have thrown in the towel and see...

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