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LAPD Intelligence Squad
The LAPD Red Squad is the common name for a division of the municipal Los Angeles Police Department, in California, United States, that was focused on limiting the activities of left-wing individuals and organizations in the city. Over the course of 50 years, LAPD "gathered some 2 million secret files...on all manner of legitimate dissenters." 1920s–1930s The immediate predecessor to the Red Squad was the LAPD War Squad, created in 1918. The War Squad was charged with investigating "spies, terrorists, labor disturbers and hostile aliens". The department's first Red Squad, formally the LAPD Intelligence Division, operated from approximately 1929 when it was organized by chief of police Roy E. Steckel, until June 22, 1938, when it was disbanded under chief of police James E. Davis (Los Angeles police officer), James E. Davis. The "anti-radical" section of the Intelligence division was widely known as the Red Squad, and was one of a number of Red Squad, red squads operating durin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
LAPL Order Number 00039807 - Herald Examiner - Board Of Communistic Literature
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) is a public library system in Los Angeles, California, operating separate from the LA County Library, Los Angeles County Public Library system. The system holds more than six million volumes, and with around 19 million residents in the Greater Los Angeles area, it serves the largest metropolitan population of any public library system in the United States. The system is overseen by a Board of Library Commissioners with five members appointed by the mayor of Los Angeles in staggered terms, and operates 72 library branches throughout the city. In 1997 a local historian described it as "one of the biggest and best-regarded library systems in the nation." History The Los Angeles Library Association was formed in late 1872, and by early 1873, a well-stocked reading room had opened in the Downey Block at Temple and Main streets under the first librarian, John Littlefield. The original library consisted of two rooms. The larger room was called th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
