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DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35960
title: Comparisons Study Group, 1992-06-16

description: Comparisons Study Group: Exhibit Volume to Table of Real and Potential Civil Disturbances: New York City (2 copies), 1992 June 16. Copies of newspaper stories which highlight highly publicized, racially motivated crimes and civil disturbances in New York City. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Materials related to the Webster Commission's Comparison Study Group, which aimed to compare the emergency planning measures of the LAPD with those of other major cities around the nation. Included are comparative statistics and data, a copy of the final report, and its appendices.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-37485
title: Appendis B, Interim draft report, Chonology Team, 1992

description: The second part of the appendix to the Interim Draft Report of the Chronology Team. Included in this appendix is a riot events grid listing specific incidents and law enforcement's subsequent response. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Appendices to the Interim Draft Report of the Chronology Team. Included are graphs, charts, figures, and statistics associated with incidents reported during the 1992 riots.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-29576
title: Metro-Dade questionnaires, 1984-1992

description: Collection of filled out questionnaires, office of the special advisor to the board of police commissioners city of Los Angeles, general department information questionnaire, citizen complaint procedure questionnaire, department planning questionnaire, department resources questionnaire, department manual 1991 included, 1984-1992. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73480
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73507
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73540
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73391
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-36295
title: Comparison team study report

description: Report produced by the Webster Commission's Comparative Team about the planning, training, and communications strategies adopted by other major United States cities with regard to emergencies and unusual occurrences. Also included is a floppy disk. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Materials related to the Webster Commission's Comparison Study Group, which aimed to compare the emergency planning measures of the LAPD with those of other major cities around the nation. Included are comparative statistics and data, a copy of the final report, and its appendices.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-90684
title: Motor transport division, activities reports, 1991/1992

description: Los Angeles Police Department, Motor transport division, activities reports, 1991-1992. PART OF SERIES: The series includes records pertaining to the Webster Commission's Discovery Request, which solicited documents related to the internal operations of the Los Angeles Police Department immediately before and during the Rodney King riots. Materials fall into four categories of documents requested by the Commission for this purpose: activity reports, meeting agendas and minutes, itineraries of Department-led training sessions, and roll call deployment period reports from these training sessions. PART OF SUBSERIES: Materials pertaining to the activities of the Los Angeles Police Department's Fiscal Support Bureau and its constituent divisions between March, 1991 and July, 1992. Included are activities reports and intradepartmental correspondence, as well as agendas and minutes from FSB staff meetings and divisional supervisor meetings.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-22601
title: Major Incident Response Plan, 1990-08

description: A key and manual to responding to major emergencies and disasters, the City of San Diego, 1990 August. PART OF SERIES: In its probe of LAPD operations, the Webster Commission surveyed the emergency procedures of other major cities in the United States, many of which had experienced similar instances of civil unrest. The series contains materials that were acquired and studied by the Commission for this purpose. Included are reference guides developed by several police departments that delineate their structure, rules, and policies; manuals that outline emergency operations plans and procedures; reports that discuss the role of community-oriented policing in the prevention of crime; and assessments of the police departments response to riots in other cities. PART OF SUBSERIES: Materials related to police plans, procedures, and operations in the city of San Diego, California.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-36276
title: Comparison team study report

description: Report produced by the Webster Commission's Comparative Team about the planning, training, and communications strategies adopted by other major United States cities with regard to emergencies and unusual occurrences. Also included is a floppy disk. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Materials related to the Webster Commission's Comparison Study Group, which aimed to compare the emergency planning measures of the LAPD with those of other major cities around the nation. Included are comparative statistics and data, a copy of the final report, and its appendices.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35235
title: Gregory Thompson, interview, 1992-06-13

description: Interview of Gregory Thompson, Chief Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles County, about the root causes of the civil disturbance, measures taken by the Los Angeles Police Department to prepare for a major civil disturbance, the nature of the violence, the adequacy of the Los Angeles Police Department's subsequent response, and the lessons learned from the incident, 1992 June 13. PART OF SERIES: After the violence had subsided, the Webster Commission met of a variety of public officials, law enforcement personnel, activists, and community leaders to discuss the rioting, its root causes, and the adequacy of the LAPD's response. The series includes summaries of these meetings, including questions and comments along of the interviewers' own mental impressions, conclusions, and opinions. Materials are arranged in alphabetical order, according to the last name of the interviewee.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-29108
title: Houston questionnaires, 1992-07-24

description: Collection of filled out questionnaires, office of the special advisor to the board of police commissioners city of Los Angeles, general department information questionnaire, citizen complaint procedure questionnaire, department planning questionnaire, department resources questionnaire, 1992 July 24. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73521
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-29491
title: Metro-Dade questionnaires, 1984-1992

description: Collection of filled out questionnaires, office of the special advisor to the board of police commissioners city of Los Angeles, general department information questionnaire, citizen complaint procedure questionnaire, department planning questionnaire, department resources questionnaire, department manual 1991 included, 1984-1992. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73360
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73596
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35570
title: Special Advisor's Study Report, 1992-09-14

description: Special Advisor's Study Report: Information Obtained From Public Officials and the Community, No. 3 of 8, a report issued by the Public Officials and Community team of the Special Advisor's study. The report summarizes interview data about planning measures undertaken by the LAPD prior to the Rodney King verdict; the adequacy of the LAPD's response to the riots; the oversight of the LAPD by the City's civilian authorities; and the structure, management, and general "political climate" of the LAPD at the time of the riots, 1992 September 14. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Special Advisor's Study Report
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35526
title: Special Advisor's Study Report, 1992-09-14

description: Special Advisor's Study Report: Information Obtained From Public Officials and the Community, No. 3 of 8, a report issued by the Public Officials and Community team of the Special Advisor's study. The report summarizes interview data about planning measures undertaken by the LAPD prior to the Rodney King verdict; the adequacy of the LAPD's response to the riots; the oversight of the LAPD by the City's civilian authorities; and the structure, management, and general "political climate" of the LAPD at the time of the riots, 1992 September 14. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Special Advisor's Study Report
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35617
title: Special Advisor's Study Report, 1992-09-14

description: Special Advisor's Study Report: Information Obtained From Public Officials and the Community, No. 3 of 8, a report issued by the Public Officials and Community team of the Special Advisor's study. The report summarizes interview data about planning measures undertaken by the LAPD prior to the Rodney King verdict; the adequacy of the LAPD's response to the riots; the oversight of the LAPD by the City's civilian authorities; and the structure, management, and general "political climate" of the LAPD at the time of the riots, 1992 September 14. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Special Advisor's Study Report
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35585
title: Special Advisor's Study Report, 1992-09-14

description: Special Advisor's Study Report: Information Obtained From Public Officials and the Community, No. 3 of 8, a report issued by the Public Officials and Community team of the Special Advisor's study. The report summarizes interview data about planning measures undertaken by the LAPD prior to the Rodney King verdict; the adequacy of the LAPD's response to the riots; the oversight of the LAPD by the City's civilian authorities; and the structure, management, and general "political climate" of the LAPD at the time of the riots, 1992 September 14. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Special Advisor's Study Report
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-36722
title: LAPD Team Final Report volume 2, 1992-09-02

description: LAPD Team Final Report volume 2: Summary of the Division (Area) Reports of a report evaluating the preparedness of the LAPD to handle a major civil disturbance, and assessing the LAPD's performance in responding to the 1992 riots. In this volume, these issues are addressed in the context of nine geographic areas within the LAPD: Southeast, Hollywood, Pacific, Central, Rampart, Newton, Wilshire, West Los Angeles, and Foothill, 1992 September 2. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: The final copy of a report produced by the Webster Commission's LAPD Team, which assesses the Department's preparedness to handle a major civil disturbance and the adequacy of its response to the 1992 riots.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-29989
title: Norfolk, Virginia, approved operating budget, 1992-1993

description: Approved operating budget, city of Norfolk, Virginia, 1992-1993. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-30421
title: Newport News operating budget, 1993

description: City of Newport News, 1993 operating budget, 1993. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-29490
title: Metro-Dade questionnaires, 1984-1992

description: Collection of filled out questionnaires, office of the special advisor to the board of police commissioners city of Los Angeles, general department information questionnaire, citizen complaint procedure questionnaire, department planning questionnaire, department resources questionnaire, department manual 1991 included, 1984-1992. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-73525
title: web-box33-23
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-29110
title: Houston questionnaires, 1992-07-24

description: Collection of filled out questionnaires, office of the special advisor to the board of police commissioners city of Los Angeles, general department information questionnaire, citizen complaint procedure questionnaire, department planning questionnaire, department resources questionnaire, 1992 July 24. PART OF SERIES: During its investigation, the Webster Commission evaluated the policies and procedures of other cities' police departments to better assess the LAPD's performance during the 1992 riots. These evaluations were conducted primarily through the distribution of questionnaires, which addressed each department's structure and internal operations. The series consists of questionnaires that were completed by the police departments of 72 major cities and returned to the Webster Commission for review. Items are arranged in alphabetical order according to city name.
DOI: 10.25549/webster-c100-35578
title: Special Advisor's Study Report, 1992-09-14

description: Special Advisor's Study Report: Information Obtained From Public Officials and the Community, No. 3 of 8, a report issued by the Public Officials and Community team of the Special Advisor's study. The report summarizes interview data about planning measures undertaken by the LAPD prior to the Rodney King verdict; the adequacy of the LAPD's response to the riots; the oversight of the LAPD by the City's civilian authorities; and the structure, management, and general "political climate" of the LAPD at the time of the riots, 1992 September 14. PART OF SERIES: In addition to analyzing the 1992 riots as a whole, the Webster Commission also divided into several smaller task forces and study groups, each of which addressed one specific aspect of the civil disturbance. The series consists of reports and appendices produced by five of these groups: the Chronology Team, the Public Officials and Community Team, the LAPD Team, the Comparisons Study Group, and the Inter-Agency Team. Also included are two copies of Webster Scope, a report that interprets the riots and their cumulative effects primarily through graphs, charts, statistics, and figures, and several research memoranda that discuss the legality of several riot-response tactics. PART OF SUBSERIES: Special Advisor's Study Report