COMPLAINT MADE ABOUT LAPD RIDES.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer LAPD 1. LAPD - Link Access Procedure on the D channel. 2. LAPD - Los Angeles Police Department. officials are denying charges by former City Councilman Robert Wilkinson Robert Wilkinson may refer to:
Wilkinson, who represented the northwest San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. on the council from 1967 to 1979, made the complaint public Monday after his step-grandson was beaten up in April while walking home from the location where police impounded his car for driving with a suspended license. ``The police told us that if he was a woman they would have given him a ride,'' Wilkinson said after complaining at the council's Public Safety Committee meeting. The former councilman said his wife's 19-year-old grandson, Michael Whitmore, was stopped at 1:30 a.m. in Winnetka by West Valley police officers who impounded his car based on information that his license had been suspended. Wilkinson said he later established that the Department of Motor Vehicles In the United States of America, Department of Motor Vehicles (or DMV) is a commonly used name of the government agency of a U.S. state which administers the registration of automobiles (e.g., by issuing license plates), and/or the licensing of drivers (e.g. had not given his step-grandson required notice of the suspension. The Granada Hills resident asked officers to call his parents or give him a ride to the police station, but the officers refused, Wilkinson said. As he began walking home, he was accosted ac·cost tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs 1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 2. To solicit for sex. by three men who attacked him, causing minor injuries before running away. ``This should never have happened,'' said Wilkinson, a Northridge resident. Councilwoman Laura Chick, who chairs the committee, said Monday that she wrote a letter to the Los Angeles Police Department "LAPD" and "L.A.P.D." redirect here. For other uses, see LAPD (disambiguation).  This article or section is written like an . in May questioning the allegations. ``The councilman's concern is that the LAPD appears to have an unwritten policy of offering rides to females when their vehicles are impounded, so as to protect them from being left stranded and vulnerable to crime, while males are often told to walk to the nearest pay phone and arrange for their own ride,'' Chick wrote. In a letter released Monday, former interim Chief Bayan Lewis Bayan Lewis (February 25, 1942-) was Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department in 1997. He was chosen by majority vote (3-2) by the LAPD commission, March 31, 1997. Prior to this, he served on the force for 34 years. wrote Thursday that he investigated the allegations, surveyed all 18 police divisions and found no evidence to support Wilkinson's charges. Lewis said in the letter that officers have the discretion to offer rides for safety on a case-by-case basis. An accompanying report by Assistant City Attorney Byron Boeckman said officers should give people rides when their actions place them in greater danger and that gender may be one factor in making the decision. Lewis said officers should warn the owner of an impounded car if there is a danger in the neighborhood, but he said there have been no lawsuits claiming discrimination based on gender. Chick is satisfied with the chief's response, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an aide, but Wilkinson said he believes the department is ignoring a serious problem. Wilkinson also complained that the LAPD failed to interview him and Whitmore during an investigation that found no misconduct by the officers involved. |
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