The current Torrance police scandal echoes the darkest days of the past, when powerful civic leaders conspired to keep their towns and cities mostly white.
said one prominent South Bay developer discriminated against Black buyers in Dominguez Hills and Torrance. When the practice was protested during the civil rights movement, Gibbons said, “his response was to build a new development in Compton” and tell Black buyers that was where they had to go.
of systemic racial profiling. As Queally reported, former officers said they were instructed to stop and question Black motorists without cause and were told that while some Black people were “upstanding,” others were best described by a slur. The Torrance Police Department, state attorney general’s office and district attorney’s office are all involved in ongoing investigations. Dozens of criminal prosecutions in which the officers were involved have already been thrown out thanks to evidence of bias. Hundreds more could follow.
Hart was unavailable when I visited. If in the future I do sit down with him, I’d like to ask what reforms he has in mind and how widespread racist attitudes might be. I’d also like to know whether he and others who have been a part of the institution for many years were aware of the rot that existed, and if so, why they kept quiet.
“Those officers interact with my children and with kids that I coach, and my students,” Estabrook said. “I wouldn’t really want those officers to have any connection to the kids in my life.”
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