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• 1 media/CAPA_manual_Beating Illustration Header.jpg 2020-07-15T16:31:26-07:00 The Independent Commission Report 10 image_header 2020-08-18T14:36:07-07:00 After three months of studying documents, analyzing data, and conducting interviews, the Commission concluded its investigation and synthesized its finding into the 228-page Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department.  The report identified several major structural problems within the LAPD that enabled the King incident to occur, problems attributed to the LAPD’s management and administration practices led by Chief of Police Daryl M. Gates.  The report also recommended reforms to address the most pernicious issues within the LAPD, which included racism and bias affecting use of excessive force and a disciplinary system stacked against those who issue complaints.  Many of the corrective actions proposed in the report echo suggestions the Commission heard in community hearings and received from community organizations: that training of LAPD officers integrate cultural awareness and sensitivity instruction and that a community-based policing model be adopted. 
  
  According to an article printed in the Los Angeles Times when the Independent Commission report was released, insofar as its findings confirmed “longstanding allegations of discrimination, harassment and brutality”, the report was applauded in minority communities in L.A.  Yet, the article also noted a certain skepticism about whether the actions recommended by the Commission, namely the call for Chief Gates to remain in his position until a successor could be found, would in fact lead to any substantive and lasting change.  As the Times reporters paraphrased the fears of one community member, “whatever becomes of Gates, racist police practices will endure.”