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1. genius.com › Buffalo-springfield-for-what-itsBuffalo Springfield – For What It's Worth Lyrics - Genius

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   For What It's Worth Lyrics: There's something happening here / But what it is ain't exactly clear / There's a man with a gun over there / A-telling me I got to beware / I think it's time we...

2. www.reddit.com › r › AskHistoriansWhen did U.S. law enforcement switching their weapons from ...

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   Awesome, thank you! I was wondering if a shoot out had anything to do with this. I know the LA shootout required all LAPD officers to change what weapons officers carried with them.

3. www.cnn.com › 2017/04/28 › usHow the LAPD changed after the 1992 riots | CNN

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   Apr 28, 2017 · “You realize we were asking a bunch of macho men to be social workers with a badge and a gun – you may as well have been asking them to be Rockettes.” “Now I am dancing with them,” she said.

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4. www.policemag.com › weapons › articleHow the North Hollywood Shootout Changed Patrol Arsenals

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   Feb 27, 2012 · The bad guys were seemingly immune to the anemic effects of pistols and shotguns, while laying down a withering fusillade of fire against LAPD officers and detectives. The shootout gave law enforcement a compelling reason to better arm patrol officers with semi-automatic rifles.

5. www.ocregister.com › 2017/04/26 › the-1992-l-a-riotsThe 1992 L.A. Riots, a look back on 25th anniversary

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   Apr 26, 2017 · The L.A. riots started the afternoon of April 29, 1992 when four white Los Angeles Police Department officers were acquitted in the brutal, videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King, the...

6. www.guns.com › news › 2021/08/10LAPD Selects FN 509 MRD as New Duty Pistol - Guns.com

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   Aug 10, 2021 · “LAPD needed the ability to quickly and securely mount a variety of duty-rated micro red dots to their service pistols to improve the accuracy potential of their handguns and their officers,”...

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   Why did LAPD start using semi-automatic rifles?

   • During the North Hollywood Shootout, the bad guys were seemingly immune to the anemic effects of pistols and shotguns, laying down a withering fusillade of fire against LAPD officers and detectives. This incident gave law enforcement a compelling reason to better arm patrol officers with semi-automatic rifles.

   How the North Hollywood Shootout Changed Patrol Arsenals

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   Was the LAPD broken?

   • That moment, caught on video and broadcast on television screens around the country, exposed what black residents of Los Angeles had known for a long time: the LAPD was broken. A California Highway patrolman directs raffic around a shopping center engulfed in flames in Los Angeles, 30 April 1992. CARLOS SCHIEBECK/AFP/Getty Images

   How the LAPD changed after the 1992 riots | CNN

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   Why did the LAPD start a police reform program?

   • In 2001 – 10 years after the Rodney King beating and nine years after the officers who beat him were acquitted by an all-white suburban jury – the LAPD began what Harvard researchers would later call “one of the most ambitious attempts at police reform ever attempted in an American city.”

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   Did LAPD use deadly force?

   • The Police Commission found that one of the officers violated the department’s policy on using deadly force in the shooting, but the Los Angeles District Attorney did not file charges in the case. “The LAPD still has a disturbingly high kill rate,” said Earl Ofari Hutchinson, president of the Los Angeles Urban Roundtable.

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8. www.history.com › topics › 1990sLos Angeles Riots ‑ 1992, Cause & Rodney King - HISTORY

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   Apr 18, 2017 · The Los Angeles riots erupted across the southern California city in spring 1992 after four LAPD officers were acquitted of assaulting motorist Rodney King.