Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver) is a veteran detective in the homicide unit of the LAPD.
In a police recording of the incident leaked to TMZ, LAPD sergeant Jim Parker can be heard telling Watts: "Somebody's made a call, which means it gives me the right to be here.
Several African American activists initially defended Watts but opinion turned and they asked the actor to apologise after LAPD sergeant Jim Parker leaked a recording of the encounter to the news site TMZ.com.
Another hearing is scheduled for December 15th to sort out the mess.All this is taking place against a background of higher-level political pressure on the LAPD.
Mr Morse works for Inglewood's police department, rather than the LAPD.
Mr Hahn has won praise for negotiating a "consent decree" under which the federal government would assume some control over the LAPD.
And he resisted the opportunity to bid for the loyalty of Latinos, the rising force in Los Angeles politics, by appointing Art Lopez, the only former LAPD officer among the three finalists for the job.In this section The gathering storm George Bush, union-basher?
He had been boozed up when he tried to outrun pursuing LAPD officers on Interstate 210 on March 3rd 1991; when they caught up with him, they reacted to his aggressive behaviour by doling out a vicious attack that a witness happened to capture on camera.
The latest nine were the first cases not to involve Mr Perez directly, an indication that the investigative net is widening.The scandal has revived argument over the idea of a permanent non-police review board to oversee the LAPD.
Mr King was a fearsomely strong man, allegedly high on drugs, who tried to flee from the police in a high-speed car chase and then attacked them when they tried to arrest him (hardly things that justify what happened to him, but all factors that had a great impact on the white jury that initially acquitted the LAPD officers who beat him).
The Police Commission, a civilian body that is supposed to oversee the operation of the department, set up a panel to examine the entire LAPD in response to Mr Perez's revelations in April this year.
