"Parker's Protege"

"The cost to the department was also immense. The LAPD became a worldwide symbol of all that was bad, bigoted and brutal in big-city policing. The world, after all, had witnessed not only the beating of King on grainy footage played over and over on television but also the LAPD's failure to react swiftly to defend the city in the first crucial hours when the rioting might have been stopped."

In the Los Angeles Times, Joe Domanick recalls the life and career of Daryl F. Gates, who died on April 16.