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Edward Michael Davis (November 15, 1916 – April 22, 2006) was the chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1969 to 1978, and later a California state senator from 1980 to 1992 and an unsuccessful Republican candidate for the United States Senate in 1986.
The Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department is the head and senior-most officer to serve in the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The incumbent manages the day-to-day operations of the LAPD and is usually held a four star officer. The chief of police is appointed by the mayor and reports to the Board of Commissioners.
The primary "targets" of Davis' department were purveyors of vice, radicals, and vagrants. [2] Edgar "Two-Gun Man" Davis during his first stint as chief of police (Los Angeles Record, Nov. 29, 1929) Davis was a proponent of the use of radio in police work. In 1929, he ordered his staff to investigate the use of radio for dispatching officers.
The Los Angeles Police Department operated an emergency hospital for 102 years, near downtown central Los Angeles. It was called the Central Receiving Hospital, and was always in a police building that also housed other police functions, until 1957 when it was moved to a purpose-built police building. It existed from 1868 to 1970.
The police chief for the University of California at Los Angeles, who was criticized for the handling of a violent mob attack in May on pro-Palestinian activists encamped at UCLA, has left the ...
Pages in category "Chiefs of the Los Angeles Police Department" ... Edward M. Davis; James E. Davis (Los Angeles police officer) Edward F. Dishman; Michael P. Downing; E.
A former security guard at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, who in 2019 used his knee to subdue a man who died days later, had been working as a Davis police officer for more than a year until last ...
The Davis Police Department, serving a search warrant this week, said they arrested two men after finding cocaine and 28 firearms, including assault weapons and homemade guns, in their Woodland home.