Daryl Gates Quotes

• Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

  Daryl Gates

  Weed, Taken, Marijuana

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• We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

  Daryl Gates

  People, Veins, May

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• They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further advanced in that regard.

  Daryl Gates

  Growing Up, Childhood, Body

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• We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

  Daryl Gates

  War, People, Liberty

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• It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop, you were terrible. We got rid of you as quickly as possible.

  Daryl Gates

  Honesty, Integrity, Police

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• No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one knew any of those things. All they saw was this grainy film and police officers hitting him over the head.

  Daryl Gates

  Kings, Police, Done

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• There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

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  People, Facts, Notable

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• No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It was the first opportunity I had to hire, and I wanted to do it, and I take responsibility.

  Daryl Gates

  Responsibility, Opportunity, People

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