Well from '20-'49 LAPD had corruption but to say that it was such that it would make Chicago PD blush is a huge overstatement.
@broadjumper1
14 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley was not 'walking the streets' for the LAPD. At the height of his career he made Lt and was the first black Watch Commander in LAPD history. This is not to say there weren't serious racial issues in the department or that Parker didn't have HUGE blind spots in dealing with social issues, but most of his paranoia was borne out of a fear of communist influences. But Parker was responsible for many of the positive achievements of LAPD and was deserving of the honor of 'Parker Center.'
@sudaev
11 жыл бұрын
In the 1960s somebody made up a story that Parker recruited people from the south, but it's silly and counter-intuitive. This even came up in a 1965 Time magazine article and the department explained that the vast majority of officers were from CA and the rest were from all over. It strains credulity to think that the most professional dept. in the country would resort to a some weird scheme like that. Anyway there's no evidence for it.
@broadjumper1
13 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I might get flamed for saying so, but all hysteria aside, Parker was responsible for cleaning out much of the corruption that permeated the LAPD in the 30's and 40's, created an intelligence gathering apparatus that was envied even by the FBI among other achievements including integrating much of the police force. But he was terribly flawed, could not accept criticism, was paranoid and possibly a racist, even if he didn't see his behavior as such.
@koranadams9992
Жыл бұрын
The fuck he literally made the 60’s in LA explosive in the most ironic way too
@kettenhund54
12 жыл бұрын
OK then let's name it Webb Center after Jack Webb of Dragnet fame. He immortalized the LAPD.
@smaner87
3 жыл бұрын
Where does this clip come from? What's the source?
@sudaev
15 жыл бұрын
What the Hell are those guys in the barber shop talking about? Tom Bradley reached the rank of lieutenant; if he ever "walked a beat'' it was because everyone starts out as a patrolman. Did LAPD recruit people in the South? Yes - BLACK officers. There's an online LA Times article, "The Watts Riot - 40 Years After" where people who experienced the riots are interviewed, and a black LAPD officer states that he originally was recruited from a college in the South, as part of an outreach.
@kettenhund54
13 жыл бұрын
Oh come on, Parker was a product of his times. Everybody on here is judging the guy by 2011 standards. He was no different than most American municipal leaders in 1965. That's the truth. From 1920 though 1949 LAPD made Chicago PD blush it was so corrupt. Parker cleaned up that mess . THAT is what Parker deserves to be remembered for. YES name that building after Parker, he deserves that honor!
@budbundy4014
3 жыл бұрын
Great point sir. This country needs more Men like him right now today
@lizzapaolia959
2 ай бұрын
Chief of LAPD in 2024. Common sense, discipline, morally sound. RIP God bless 🙏👌
@lindastretch2522
Ай бұрын
that said all my uncle under him
@broadjumper1
12 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley was not 'walking the streets' for the LAPD. At the height of his career he made Lt and was the first black Watch Commander in LAPD history. This is not to say there weren't serious racial issues in the department or that Parker didn't have HUGE blind spots in dealing with social issues, but most of his paranoia was borne out of a fear of communist influences.
@JULYXXIV
7 жыл бұрын
broadjumper1 He was the 3rd Black Watch Commander behind Lt. Earl Broady (who made lieutenant under Chief Hohmann) and Lt. Homer Broome.
@ModernBarbarian187
11 жыл бұрын
People have to pick which story they want to go with. I always thought LA had factories and when the jobs were shipped out of the country. Than the gangs began starting. Now it is there were no jobs. Poverty is an important part of this, and police corrupting is never acceptable, but there are no simple answers. I say to minorities everywhere if you want to change the police how about joining! Protect your communities, and don't let criminals take over.
@quanerams
3 ай бұрын
Remember this guy was good friends with Gene Roddenberry and is the person Spock is based off of.
@kettenhund54
11 жыл бұрын
Well the main person for advocating the building be named after Chief Parker is former Chief Bernard Parks, an African-American who was HIRED by Parker. Apparently he knew the Chief better than anyone on this board. For the record, the building isn't named after Parker and most likely won't be. They should name it after Chief James Davis. If you're unfamiliar with him then Google his name.
@KM-xn5kj
8 жыл бұрын
the ending though lml
@Rexjunett
7 жыл бұрын
"People that live in the past fail to see the hope and promise of the future" Dr. Martin Luther King 1963 Birmingham AL.
@HarveyMushman888
12 жыл бұрын
Why was Villaraigosa "as a young teen" running around the streets late at night I wonder....
@budbundy4014
3 жыл бұрын
Why?
@QEsposito510
2 жыл бұрын
He had a point though. Tons of ignorant, ungrateful freeloaders DID and CONTINUE to drag down minority communities. If it weren’t for them, police wouldn’t be treating these neighborhoods as badly. It’s an inconvenient truth but it’s still the truth.
@jz1528
2 жыл бұрын
💯💯💯
@broadjumper1
13 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley was not 'walking the streets' for the LAPD. At the height of his career he made Lt and was the first black Watch Commander in LAPD history. This is not to say there weren't serious racial issues in the department or that Parker didn't have HUGE blind spots in dealing with social issues, but most of his paranoia was borne out of a fear of communist influences. Parker was responsible for many of the positive achievements of LAPD and was deserving of the honor of 'Parker Center.'
@pp-bb6jj
6 ай бұрын
William Parker was a great police chief and LAPD back then was an excellent police agency. And Los Angeles was a normal city where normal people could live in. But then some other people came in and cause troubles.
@The-Portland-Daily-Blink
6 жыл бұрын
The fact is you can’t judge a man based upon the morals of today, when the man lived under the social and cultural realities of sixty plus years ago. The fact is, Parker was a visionary in many ways, but he was only one man, and he couldn’t solve all the social ills in LA. But to judge him based on things he said decades ago on film is to miss the point of what you’re seeing. What you’re seeing is another world. And there’s no going back to that world.
@misterx4815
4 жыл бұрын
Parker was a visionary of being a racist cunt
@MrRed-tf7bv
3 жыл бұрын
Ok karen.🤣🤣🤣
@HollywoodGraham
15 жыл бұрын
You can't make everyone happy by naming or refusing to name a building after someone. So why not just give it a descriptive name like Police Administration Building, like Parker Center was originally. Remember yesterdays heros are todays villains and yesterdays villains are todays heros.
@norellpolk
12 жыл бұрын
name the building after jack webb
@Releasethezazen
7 жыл бұрын
Just the clip alone without commentary would be better. It speaks for itself.
@mueygringo
13 жыл бұрын
He should check the comments on his channel on the sock accounts.
@sudaev
13 жыл бұрын
@kettenhund54 - Most all of what you said is true, although I disagree that LAPD in '20-'49 was worse than Chicago PD in terms of corruption. Even at their worst, LAPD in those days was still better than those other departments.
@mr.saintman3202
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah he did a few good things but were also judging a guy from the 1930 lol might as well toss all the usa presidents in there lol
@calfan4life
8 жыл бұрын
T he appalling high crime rate in the black community at the time? It is completely ignored here and not taken into account.Some lady excuse crime by blacks because of no economic opportunity. As if that made it right. Chief Parker was perhaps the wisest police administrater any large city ever had. Los Angeles owes its sucess to him.
@dwaynesmith7071
8 жыл бұрын
Get the hell out of here- for a man in his position to go on live television and say "We didn't ask you people to come here- We weren't ready to meet you" says enough. He recruited at KKK rallies, which is a well known fact given the several accounts. Clearly you support these ideals OR you are turning a willing blind eye. He is absolutely NOT worthy of being remembered. Rest in hell, Parker.
@calfan4life
8 жыл бұрын
." He recruited at KKK rallies, which is a well known fact given the several accounts" If your going to make statements like this, back them up with credible sources. Otherwise its just the usual slander.
@dwaynesmith7071
8 жыл бұрын
Jack Spencer Well I'll agree with you that my sources are from these youtube videos, which I guess you can argue as hearsay. However, The history of the LAPD does not make these claims far fetched. For example, Mark Furhman.....proud member of the KKK and proud racist. Parker was a man who wanted the police force to be a military which they were not. This, partnered with his racist ideals is why black people were treated the way they were under his watch......or lack there of. Are you claiming that William Parker was not, in fact, a racist? This is aside from any claims about him hiring KKK members (which is very likely). Also, that police brutality did not run rampant in the black community?
@jcaliberty8288
8 жыл бұрын
+Dwayne Smith there's no evidence of any kkk hiring he also desegregated the LAPD, he took beat cops off foot patrols put them in black and whites used tactics he learned in the army during WW2
@dwaynesmith7071
8 жыл бұрын
JCAliberty82 Ok, if you say so.
@TheRavenclawstudent
11 жыл бұрын
Haha, me too.
@zxzxxzxz3303
11 ай бұрын
Good chief
@sudaev
11 жыл бұрын
Yeah, yeah, blacks are so peaceful and easy to get along with. South L.A. is such a peaceful place....cry me a river.
@buckshot6481
3 жыл бұрын
A fantastic chief ! Look at what's come of L.A. since ! 🤦 🤔🙉🙊🙈
@remmymafia3889
Жыл бұрын
exactly- uncontrolled, anti-white racist crime, being green lighted by the leftists, who continually sow discord and division, to keep power, while continually virtue signalling to the black/brown racists in control now, so as to 'stay safe'. Fact.
@mynamesfriday
14 жыл бұрын
@PoliceBlog So true.
@simonegreen4319
3 жыл бұрын
To understand William Parker one must understand the era with which he Was a part of he was a leader of a police department during a time when migration into the city was an all-time high to clarify his comment when you said we did not ask for these people to come here he didn’t mean a certain race of people what he meant was the large influx of immigrants in its entirety blacks whites Asians Hispanics that’s what he meant when he said these people he instilled harsh tactics because in that time for some people that was all that some kid understand you had a city in turmoil murders occurring rioting civil unrest it was not an error or time we could wave a white flag as they let there be peace a lot of times we like to catalog and chronicle the negative yet we don’t chronicle the positive the innovations that he supervised History will show that because of William Parker the police department came into its own and grasp its own identity in became a leader of law-enforcement in this nation each and every last person that’s ever sat in the chair and the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department have all left their mark on the department and one thing I will say I think the mall because they all no matter what did their best
@norellpolk
12 жыл бұрын
they should take his name off that bldg permantly
@brittoverbaugh4035
3 жыл бұрын
0:10-0:47...5:07...
@CreightonRabs
15 жыл бұрын
novapj - If Bill Bratton was such a terrible chief of the LAPD, why has violent/serious crime (murders, assaults, burglaries, etc)decreased 10 percent over the past two years?
@Vans3151
11 жыл бұрын
Excuse people, was William H. Parker racist because he allegedly supported the city's racist power structure.
@mueygringo
13 жыл бұрын
Trying to pick up spricket oh no Spammed. What about nat, oh no spammed again. what about Tyson Gay oh no spammed. BOBBAYYYY!!!, spammed there too. What about those awards shows. Damn this boy gets spammed every time he makes a comment. Funny stuff!!! MAX IS PLUGGING THAT BUNG HOLE OF THE BOY JUMPER.
@mueygringo
13 жыл бұрын
@nastrobamas Word
@Denvermorgan2000
7 жыл бұрын
If people obeyed the law this would not happen and if it did it would be rare.
@sudaev
9 жыл бұрын
No, and again NO - LAPD didn't specifically recruit officers from the southern states. It's idiotic to think that a man of Parker's caliber would do that, or that the police department or city saw fit to do that. If you think that, you're seriously deluded.
@JULYXXIV
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you! Someone who gets it. These people know jack sh*t about the real LAPD.
@hutch1111111
8 жыл бұрын
+sudaev Of course not, but if they were from the South then their stock went up. The Southern good ol boys had a better chance of getting hired.
@breightonbisbane
8 жыл бұрын
he recruited KKK memebers
@dwaynesmith7071
8 жыл бұрын
You are seriously deluded to think differently.
@mueygringo
13 жыл бұрын
@saturnwhinefilms what?
@TimFarrellsenna
12 жыл бұрын
I wish the LAPD would go back to their old ways.
@RoryStarr
8 жыл бұрын
Well, he's pretty clearly a racist. It seems that he also cleaned up some aspects of the LAPD. Both sides have a point here. Historical figures seem to always have these ironies in their stories. Ghandi did liberate India, but not as peacefully as people assume. Many Indians died by his model of non-aggression. And when he took power, he basically wanted to establish a theocracy that further fractured India internally - divides that still plague it to this day. Is he still a good man? What about the NAACP's misogyny in the 60s? Or MLK's philandering? Every person that does something notable also has a dark side, it would seem. I guess it's all a balancing act.
@maga5725
6 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the best police chiefs ever! Let's see, fear and intimidation= respect. Pretty much what people are supposed to have in regards to the law and the people who protect our laws.. this is what's wrong with our country today, absolutely no regard for the law.. the black community has ALWAYS had an issue with the laws and the ability to govern and police themselves..
@mynamesfriday
14 жыл бұрын
@JewCommunist AMEN MY FRIEND.
@prophetess101557
11 жыл бұрын
So what if he was? All that means is that he had bad parents...
@RADIUMGLASS
4 жыл бұрын
Chief Parker is needed in big cities today.
@itsme5751
3 жыл бұрын
@Sellout Basher You are not human. You are a beast of burden.
@prophetess101557
11 жыл бұрын
So what makes you think they've changed???????
@kettenhund54
13 жыл бұрын
@sudaev Yeah these guys don't want the truth get in the way of their preconceived ideas. It's a Black barbershop what do you expect?
@prophetess101557
11 жыл бұрын
So did you get your hood and sheet out of the closet?
@MusicKnowledge1
12 жыл бұрын
20perecent good 80percent evil go figure
@jasonesapp
11 жыл бұрын
Spock brought me here.
@broadjumper1
13 жыл бұрын
Tom Bradley was not 'walking the streets' for the LAPD. At the height of his career he made Lt and was the first black Watch Commander in LAPD history. This is not to say there weren't serious racial issues in the department or that Parker didn't have HUGE blind spots in dealing with social issues, but most of his paranoia was borne out of a fear of communist influences. Parker was responsible for many of the positive achievements of LAPD and was deserving of the honor of 'Parker Center.'
@broadjumper1
14 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I might get flamed for saying so, but all hysteria aside, Parker was responsible for cleaning out much of the corruption that permeated the LAPD in the 30's and 40's, created an intelligence gathering apparatus that was envied even by the FBI among other achievements including integrating much of the police force. But he was terribly flawed, could not accept criticism, was paranoid and possibly a racist, even if he didn't see his behavior as such.
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