Daryl Gates' real legacy

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David Cay Johnston won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the U.S. tax system for the New York Times. Before the NYT, he covered Daryl Gates and the Los Angeles Police Department for the L.A. Times. In a visiting blogger post for LA Observed, Johnston recalls his stories that uncovered an international spying operation run by Gates that spied on L.A. leaders and political groups, infiltrated groups using sex and undercover operatives, incited violent acts and tried to intimidate reporters such as Johnston. He also writes about the seven times his car was burglarized, including in the LAPD garage, and the story that the L.A. Times wouldn't run.

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http://www.laobserved.com/visiting/2010/04/daryl_gates_secret_legacy.php