Willie L. Williams
Police officer, Person
1943 –
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Who is Willie L. Williams?
Willie L. Williams was chief of the Los Angeles Police Department from 1992 to 1997, taking over after chief Daryl Gates' resignation following the 1992 Los Angeles riots. Williams was the first African-American police commissioner of both the Philadelphia Police Department and the LAPD. During his term as chief of the LAPD, he tried to create a positive image of the department and close the rift created between the police and black neighborhoods by the violent arrest of Rodney King in 1991.
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- Born
- Oct 1, 1943
Philadelphia - Also known as
- Willie Williams
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Overbrook High School
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
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on July 23, 2013
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