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A 5 page paper that provides a sequential overview of the events leading up the Chief of Police Parks resignation on April 22, 2002. The Chief was denied reappointment by the Commission. The mayor had also stated he would not support Parks' reappointment. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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the post was rejected by the mayor and the city council (Leovy and Daunt, 2002). But, the story did not start in April, the events leading up to denying reappointment
to Parks began a long time ago. Parks was appointed chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1997 and 20 months later, he received a 5 to 1 approval
rating in the city (Lait, 1999). That sounds high until you know that 43 percent of the citys residents did not feel they knew enough about him to give him
a rating; they just did not know the chief or what he was about (Lait, 1999). His immediate predecessor had a 73 percent support rating and only 13 percent of
the population felt they did not know him enough to rate him (Lait, 1999). In fact, Chief Willie L. Williams, who was forced out of office never had an approval
rating of less than 52 percent during his entire tenure (Lait, 1999). Parks approval rating in the city was not the only factor that led to his resignation. In 1997,
City Attorney James K. Hahn visited Police Chief Parks to try to pursued him to change his mind about disbanding a popular senior lead program that had been established (Gold
and Daunt, 2002). This was a program wherein police officers were assigned to work as community contacts but after taking over as Chief of Police, Parks eliminated the program, which
is what prompted that particular visit from Hahn to Parks. No amount of persuasive argument deterred Parks (Gold and Daunt, 2002). That was not the only time there was a
difference of opinion between these two men and consistently, Parks would not back down from his decision (Gold and Daunt, 2002). But, when Parks sought reappointment as police chief, Hahn
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