They have, and bring with them, that upper-body strength. They have apparently developed that in their childhood and growing up, and they've further …

- Daryl Gates

No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parolee and that he was violating his parole. No one kn…

- Daryl Gates

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department. If you violated th…

- Daryl Gates

Casual drug users should be taken out and shot.

- Daryl Gates

We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

- Daryl Gates

No police department should hire more quickly than they can assimilate the people that they bring in, and we did. I take responsibility for it. It wa…

- Daryl Gates

We're in a war. People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason.

- Daryl Gates

There are going to be situations where people are going to go without assistance. That's just the facts of life.

- Daryl Gates