[Bill Pavelic - Famous Investigator]
Bill Pavelic established himself as the foremost insider critic of racism and corruption in the LAPDBill Pavelic Speaking Out and Exposing Racism and Racist Cops
2007-08-30
In 1991, Bill Pavelic established himself as the foremost insider critic of racism and corruption in the LAPD.
Bill Pavelic has been the subject of many articles nationally and internationally for speaking out against and exposing racism that he personally witnessed as a LAPD Detective.
On June 30, 1992, Bill Pavelic sent the following letter to the Los Angeles Sentinel concerning the institutionalized racism, corruption, and sexism, of the LAPD under Chief Daryl Gates' leadership.
To: Los Angeles Sentinel Opinion Section
As a 19 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, I am elated that Chief Gates was forced into retirement. His corrupt managerial style, coupled with his inflammatory and intemperate public comments, have done irreparable damage to the City of Los Angeles and its police department.
Daryl Gates and his close associates are suffering from a disease called megalomania......an exaggerated belief in their own greatness and that of the organization. In order to maintain a mythical status of being "the best law enforcement agency in the world" the LAPD management developed a bunker mentality and consciously impeded and retarded investigations or inquiries which reflected poorly on the organization. The "us against them" mentality required faulty analysis which was oftentimes based on pseudo reasoning, clever fallacies and distorted or manufactured evidence.
The disciplinary system under the leadership of Daryl Gates lacked consistency, uniformity and equality and sent a deplorable signal to others on the force, that it is OK to falsify official investigations, violate the LAPD manual, discredit the Code of Ethics and be dishonest as long as you are a member of management or have friends at the top who will protect you even when prima facie evidence of a crime is clearly evident.
Chief Gates has failed to hold accountable personnel under his control who were acting under the color of law and were exercising illegal direction under the guise of official authority. In no sphere of public life is this practice more repugnant than in law enforcement. Chief Gates, who morally bankrupt the Los Angeles Police Department, forgot, or never knew, that true leadership can be gained only by an intolerance of wrong doing...and...unless we all abide by the highest standards among ourselves, we have no business enforcing the law upon others.
Chief Gates used the Internal Affairs Division to intimidate those officers who dared to speak out against Los Angeles Police Department's institutionalized racism, corruption, sexism, mismanagement, promotional cronyism and other sensitive issues. If the Internal Affairs Division didn't get these "disloyal" police officers, like the Russian KGB, the organization could always count on the Medical Liaison Unit to send these officers to the Department shrink...to certify them as functionally crazy.
Under the leadership of Chief Williams, respect for individual dignity will once again become an integral part of the Los Angeles Police Department's philosophy...a philosophy that will be based on the principles of professionalism, reverence for the law and harmony between the police and the community it serves.
Respectfully,
Bill Pavelic, Southwest Division
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Millionaire Cleared in Rape Case Calls Experience 'Devastating'
2007-08-16
City News Service
July 27, 2001 Friday
BYLINE: By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH, City News Service
LENGTH: 811 words
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES
A millionaire businessman acquitted of charges that he sexually assaulted nine women, seven of whom allegedly were drugged, said today that the allegations have been "a devastating experience."
"The nightmare is over, absolutely. I'm looking forward to just relaxing and going back to work, and salvaging a lot of the money that I've lost and just looking forward to a new life and getting married and having a family," John Gordon Jones said at a downtown news conference.
Jones spent more than two years in county jail without bail until a Long Beach Superior Court jury acquitted him yesterday of 29 charges, including kidnapping, rape of an unconscious person, rape by use of drugs and sexual battery.
The 46-year-old owner of Worldtech Computer in Encino, which he had helped to run from jail, maintained that he had been "wrongfully accused."
"They falsified documents, they hid documents. There was prosecutorial misconduct that was just to an unbelievable, devastating state," the businessman said.
"Well, what happened is the District Attorney's Office wanted to have a GHB date rape case, and they wanted to go ahead and prosecute me no matter what the truth was.
"They went ahead and they got these women to go ahead and say false allegations against me, with blackouts that never existed, by lying. When these women wanted to back out, I believe that they forced them to go ahead with their stories," Jones said.
One of Jones' lawyers, Milton Grimes, said his client is "thinking very seriously of suing the county for false imprisonment because of the incompetent investigation in this case."
"Nine different women caused this man, this man here, to sit in jail wrongfully for 793 days over two years with wrongful allegations," Grimes said.
On behalf of the district attorney, Sandi Gibbons said her "office will not be commenting on such silly allegations that aren't true anyway."
The woman whose allegations launched the case against Jones claimed he had date-raped her and that she got home after spending the night with him and believed she had been drugged, Grimes said.
"Well, when she was tested the next day, it turned out that she had snorted a considerable amount of cocaine, which would definitely inhibit or prohibit or keep anyone from being knocked out, so this is the young lady that started this avalanche going," the defense lawyer said.
He noted that the jurors cleared his client after taking a field trip to Jones' home.
"Once the jury went out to the residence of Mr. Jones and viewed it, they had no doubt of his innocence because the descriptions of some of the women were that they were locked in bedrooms that turned out to have no locks on the doors," Grimes said.
Another of Jones' lawyers, Richard Sherman, said his client became the "poster boy for date rape."
"He was a rich man, he was a prominent man in the business community and they took him into custody. They never investigated the allegations of the first victim, the alleged victim. Had they done that, they would have realized that he didn't do that and that she was not telling ... a true story," Sherman said.
Jones said he learned that "county jail is very rough," and that he was jumped and beaten up while on the county jail bus.
"It has been a devastating experience with tremendous loss of income. And it took a lot of praying and a man like Milton Grimes and (private investigator and former LAPD detective) Bill Pavelic and Mr. Sherman to prove my innocence," he said.
Jones and his lawyers said they believed the case was motivated by his wealth and the prospect that the women might get hefty legal judgments in civil lawsuits if he had been convicted.
The women "started coming forward" with the allegations after the District Attorney's Office went to the media in December 1998 and "asked are there any victims out there who have been victimized by the alleged millionaire limousine rapist?" Grimes said.
"I don't think there'd be any charges if I didn't have any money, there would have been no charges, absolutely not," Jones said.
Jones, who had faced the possibility of consecutive life prison sentences if convicted, said he spent his first night of freedom in more than two years at a gathering with his mom and some of his friends.
"It's like starting all over again, really. Just driving the car was amazing," he said, adding that he plans to go back to work next Monday at his company, which sells laser jet cartridges and office products nationwide. "Basically, I'm just happy to be free."
The case against two other people indicted along with Jones in April 1999 on a much smaller number of charges is under review given the jury's verdict in Jones' case, according to the District Attorney's Office.
Pina Marie Colapinto and Lawrence Elliott are awaiting trial next month in downtown Los Angeles.
LOAD-DATE: July 28, 2001
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KAELIN HAD SECRET ACCESS TO ALL OF O.J.'S HOME AND THE PROPERTY AND DOCUMENTS INSIDE IT
2007-08-14
When he was alone at Rockingham -- which was almost certainly several times during the six months he lived them -- Kaelin had unfettered access to OJ's property. His quarters had a door that connected to the inside of the main house.
From: "I'm Not Dancing Anymore" by Terri Baker, O.J.'s niece:
Page 43:
".. The last thing [Nicole] remodeled was the backyard. She had an architect come in and expand the guest room into a little complex with three guest rooms, all connected, and designed to look like an extension of the house...The guest house nearest the house, where Kato later lived [emphasis added], was attached directly to the house with a door that could be locked from inside the house...."
This door was not on the alarm system, as is proved by this testimony of Sue Silva, of Westec Security, March 30, 1995 (Darden questioning):
Q: OKAY. BEFORE I ASK YOU WHERE THEY ARE, LET ME ASK YOU THIS. DIRECTING YOUR ATTENTION TO THE MAID'S QUARTERS AND KAELIN'S ROOM IN THE LOWER PORTION OF THE DIAGRAM THERE, ARE THERE ANY SECURITY SENSORS OR ENTRY PANELS LOCATED IN ANY OF THOSE ROOMS?
A: NO. THERE IS -- WE AT ONE TIME BELIEVED THAT THERE WAS SOME SORT OF A SENSOR. BUT WHEN -- THE DAY I WAS OUT AT THE PROPERTY, THE SENSOR WAS NOT CONNECTED TO THE STAIR ROOM OR THE ROOMS FROM KATO'S ROOM TO THE BILLIARD ROOM, BUT THERE IS NO ON AND OFF KEYPAD OF ANY TYPE TO DEACTIVATE THE ALARM SYSTEM WITH THE SAME TYPE OF KEYPADS THAT ARE INSTALLED AT ANY ONE OF THESE FOUR S.
Q: OKAY. SO IN OTHER WORDS THEN, THERE IS NO -- THERE ARE NO SECURITY SENSORS ANYWHERE FROM THE OFFICE HERE TO THE MAID'S ROOM? [Darden is referring to the "office" that was the second room in kaelin's quarters]
A: THAT'S CORRECT.
However, OJ was unaware of the true condition and thought that door was on the alarm system. From his January 46, 1996 depostion:
Q: And how would Kaelin deal with the setting of the alarm if he's going in and out of the house on weekends?
A: As I told you before, he wasn't supposed to be going in and out of the house on weekends.
Q: What if he went in and out of his guest room, and the alarm were activated on the property, and nobody else was home, like your housekeeper, would the alarm be going on and off when Kaelin's entering his guest room?
A: No.
Q: Why is that?
A: Because, as I told you, his exterior door to his guest room is not on the alarm.
Q: Just the interior door?
A: Yes.
Moreover, Kaelin must have known this because Sydney and Justin once broke into Kaelin's quarters through that door. While it is unclear if it was locked or not, if it was, the lock was simple enough for small children to defeat.
From Kaelin's deposition of February 14, 1996:
A: Can I ask a question, Dan? [Kaelin was addressing Daniel Petrocelli]
Q: Sure.
A: There was a time when Sydney and Justin came by where they were in my room, and he had come through the office area to my room.
Q: That's an internal door?
A: Yeah. But he was in my room that time. I don't want to--
Q: So the only other time he had ever been near your room is when he came through the interior office door to get the kids.
A: Yeah. The kids were with--you know, hanging out with me, and he came by the room.
It was one of only two time OJ went to Kaelin's room when Kaelin lived there, the other time being on the murder night to borrow some money.
This means Kaelin had access to OJ's clothes and shoes, perhaps his rolodex and other phone logs, his laundry, and his garbage. This is, I say, how Kaelin obtained the objects -- the shoes, the knife, the gloves, the socks, samples of OJ's dried blood -- needed to frame OJ.
Page 137:
[Darden and Clark questioning Kaelin in their office before the Grand Jury session]:
[Clark]:"What is next to your room?"
[Kaelin]:"Arnelle's room."
"No, no. Isn't there a pool room?"
"Oh, yes."
"How big is it? Can you get into it from your room?"
"No." [Kaelin lies at this point]
"It's separate, right?"
"Yes."
"Is there a way to get behind it?" [It's unclear exactly what Clark was trying to ask in this question],BR> "No."
"Are there things in it like glove, things like that?"
"I don't know."
"would there be a wooden stick in there?"
"Where?"
"The pool room."
............ "Did you ever go in that room?"
"No."
"You've never been in that room before?"
"Maybe I opened the door once. [emphasis added]. I know it's there, I know it's a pool room........."
II. Kaelin had the ability to tap into OJ's phone conversations, and to have made phone calls that phone company computer records would 'perceive' as coming from OJ.
Except for Kaelin's personal phone (and Arnelle's personal phone), all the phones at Rockingham were extensions of one number, and it was possible to listen in on other phones conversations.
Terri Baker, "I'm Not Dancing Anymore", Page 53:
"....Uncle O.J. and I were alone at Rockingham. Late that evening Uncle O.J. buzzed down to the maid's room where I as staying on the intercom to ask me for a favor. He wanted me to call some restaurant in Westwood and ask for a certain waitress. I was supposed to say, ‘Hi, is so-and-so there?' When she came on the phone, I'd say , ‘Could you please hold a second? O.J. Simpson would like to talk to you.' I buzzed Uncle O.J. to take the call and he did..."
From "Kato Kaelin, The Whole Truth" by Marc Eliot:
Page 72: "Kato loved to answer, always with a funny quip and a disguised voice. "Hi," he'd say, putting on an exaggerated effeminate voice ,....O.J. loved it, often listening in on the extension..." See also page 90.
All these phones rang when someone rang at the Ashford gate,
More on the phones at Rockingham from OJ's deposition of January 23, 1996:
Q: Would there have been any other way that Kato could have opened that gate on Rockford?
A: I believe so.
MR. BAKER: On Rockford?
MR. PETROCELLI: Excuse me. On Ashford.
THE WITNESS: Yes.
? BY MR. PETROCELLI:
Q: What are the other options that Kato had to do that?
A: He could have picked up the phone and pushed whatever number to let him in.
Q: Any telephone in the house?
A: Yes.
Q: He had access to the phones in the house?
A: In his room.
Q: Even in his room he could operate the gate?
A: You know, once he got in that room, I never went in that room to see what his phone setup was, but before he got in that room I know you could have, yes.
Q: You don't recall if you changed it or not?
A: I didn't do anything.
Q: And in Arnelle's room--she also lived there. Right?
A: Yes.
Q: On June 12th. Correct?
A: Yes.
Q: And she had the same ability on her telephone to press the button and have the gate open. Right?
[In other words, Arnelle's phone -- in the room next to Kaelin's -- rang when Park buzzed at Ashford, and, from OJ's answer here, it appears possible that Kaelin had TWO phones in his room -- on from the Rockingham system, and his own personal phone. If that was the case, Kaelin could have been "bugging" OJ, beause the phones were extensions of each other.]
A: Yes.
and could have been used to let the person in. There were at least two phone extensions at the guest house, and it is recorded that Kaelin could hear the phones ring in the main house. This means he know when someone rang at the Ashford gate.
Allan Park rang at the Ashford gate at 10:40. Kaelin, according to his original testimony, heard the three thumps AND REPORTED THEM TO FERRARA at 10:40.
Page 98-99:
"Kato then called Rachel back...talked to her until about 1:30 [a.m.]... After awhile he heard the clacking of high heels on the walkway and figured it was Arnelle....He tried to sleep...He kept tossing and turning all night....he recalled, ‘I kept hearing O.J.'s phone ringing...When it was really quiet in my room I could hear the soft high brr of O.J.'s phone from the main house. It seemed to ring a thousand times...'"
On the blood drops at Bundy:
"AMERICAN TRAGEDY" Page 178 - 179:
"...Lee shows blowups of the Bundy blood drops. ‘The drops are too neat,' he says. ‘Too perfect. Much too similar." That kind of drop comes only from blood falling down straight, Lee explains. Someone would have to be standing still for blood to drip from him in that pattern..."
Page 227:
"...Dr. Lee also reminds them that blood drops leading to the back gate [of Bundy] look to him as if the blood fell from someone standing still. Further, the blood is so degraded that it lacks enough DNA for RFLP testing..."
Page 286:
"...Scheck...told Blasier of odd DNA difference in the Bundy blood drops, trailing east to west toward the back gate. The drop nearest the bodies, he said, contained 33.6 nanograms of DNA. Moving west, the next drop had barely 5 nanograms, the drop after that 1.8. The fourth drop had 12.1 nanograms. And the final one, just before the gate, has 31.6.
... "....'Henry Lee says that a single drop of blood should contain about fourteen hundred nanograms,' Scheck explained. " We have stunning proof that a severe bacterial degradation took place in these samples. The blood was collected twelve hours after the murders. How did they lose ninety percent of their DNA in twelve hours? How can one drop have thirty-three nanograms, another barely two? If they fell at the time of the murders, they should be about equal. And Lee tells us that these drops don't have enough tails to come from a man walking away in a hurry. Their shape suggests the blood was dropped from somebody almost standing still...."
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About Bill Pavelic on “AMERICAN TRAGEDY” BY LARRY SHILLER
2007-08-08
"...Bill Pavelic was especially proud of his street sense. He had been one of the few (LAPD) Caucasian cops; he liked to tell friends, who understood how things really worked in the black community. He got so deep into it that he saw things, he was certain, through nonwhite eyes. He discovered that African-Americans and dark-skinned immigrants of all backgrounds had a lot to fear from the LAPD. When the department couldn't prove something, some cops had no problem framing people who couldn't fight back. Pavelic complained loudly, and soon enough he was seen as disloyal. Before long, he was out..."
"...I know (LAPD) Robbery-Homicide Division. I've actually seen them frame innocent people. You can't take anything for granted..."
"...Pavelic studied the LAPD's crime-scene logs. He called friends at LAPD to see what else he could learn. He put in twenty-hour days, and finally what happened in the early hours of June 13 started to come together..."
"...Pavelic got a call from an officer on another matter. As they spoke, he realized that the cop was connected to the Simpson investigation. He said the department thought there was more than one killer. The wounds suggested each victim was murdered with a different weapon. Goldman's injuries indicated he had fought fiercely before he died..."
"...Pavelic felt that there was no private investigator in town better at living inside the collective mind of the LAPD than himself. He was an expert on the department's rules and procedures. He'd been on the force for eighteen years, won hundreds of medals, commendations, favorable incident reports..."
"...It was Pavelic who gave them their first real hope, however elusive: He saw corruption in the police casework..."
"...Under any circumstances, Pavelic would have looked for it. His career with the LAPD had ended in angry protest. In 1984, Pavelic had testified against fellow officers who killed a fleeing suspect. One cop was fired, another suspended for six months. Pavelic assumed he was stigmatized forever. But by 1990, he'd made it to supervising detective in the Southwest Division. Then he got in trouble again.
His men were investigating a date rape at USC when their bosses began showing a heavy-handed interest. Pavelic, his partner, and their immediate supervisor eventually concluded that then-chief Daryl Gates and a deputy chief were listening to the suspect's father, a prominent lawyer with influence inside the department.
Pavelic and his men protested publicly. And Bill raised similar charges again before a "people's tribunal" when activist groups held hearings on the LAPD after the Rodney King beating. Pavelic told the crowd that lying and covering up were the norm in the department. That earned him a desk job. In 1992, he and the brass reached an accommodation. He took a disability pension for asthma and chest pains. He told one doctor he'd rather spend time in a gulag than go back to work..."
"...When Shapiro called, Zvonko "Bill" Pavelic was in his basement office at home in Glendale, cut off from everything. Pavelic finished his investigations that way. He isolated himself with his computer and his tapes from mid-morning till midnight or later. He allowed himself only one break, for dinner with Maria and the kids. He was proud of his tight, loyal family. That was one reason he worked at home in the big house that Maria kept so well..."
"...Robert Shapiro called just before eleven P.M. They'd worked together three years. Pavelic liked the lawyer's style-intellectual, highly organized, well prepared. Shapiro's particular genius, he thought, was laying a foundation so solid that the case was a winner no matter who presented it. They had won every case they'd worked on..."
"...Would Pavelic like to join the defense team in the Simpson case? Shapiro asked. "Are you available?" Naturally Pavelic said yes. He apologized because he couldn't make Shapiro's first meeting the next day. But he shifted into gear mentally while he was still talking. He'd need Maria to clip newspapers. He knew he had to identify the documents already being generated in the case. The prosecution's discovery file would undoubtedly be voluminous..."
"...Bill Pavelic met Robert Shapiro at his office in Century City. Elegantly appointed with original art, Baccarat and Lalique crystal. Polished and expensive, like its occupant. Then they moved to a conference room. Their forty-five-minute meeting ranged over the entire case. Nothing would be easy, Shapiro said. An arrest might be coming soon. He needed the investigator to do what he did best, run parallel with the police detectives and figure out how they saw things; then, as soon as possible, move their own investigation ahead of them. As always, the first days were the most important..."
"...His one experience with O.J. Simpson was part of his police history. When Simpson was one of the runners carrying the Olympic torch before the 1984 games in Los Angeles. Pavelic was assigned to protect VIPs. He and Simpson had talked briefly in the special seating section. Around that time, the International Olympic Committee's Life President, Lord Killenin, nearly died choking on his food. Pavelic had saved his life and he thought Simpson might remember the incident..."
"... He put his background to work as a private investigator and learned to make his computer think like a cop. That was why he was so concerned with early discovery material. If you took the documents, the crime reports, the logs, the affidavits and connected them to each piece of evidence, then considered how each cop might view it, then you could make a pretty good guess where the department was going with the case. You could see who'd like one thing, who favored another. Sometimes you could see their destination and arrive there ahead of them..."
"...As an ex-cop, he drew on his knowledge of what the police do at a crime scene. They don't always go by the book. They cut corners-some officers more than others-but their reports make them sound like Boy Scouts. Pavelic knew how to read between the lines of police verbiage and find the hidden stories in the photographs the D.A. had turned over..."
"..Pavelic knew that Robbery-Homicide, the elite corps of detectives from LAPD, would be assigned the case when it became known that Simpson's ex-wife was involved..."
"...As a private investigator, Pavelic was particularly good at following law enforcement paper trails. He was immediately suspicious of the lack of specifics in the Bundy and Rockingham reports. Pavelic's red alert signals flashed as he studied Phil Vannatter's affidavit for the Rockingham search warrant.
No indication who found the bloody glove. Nothing about going into Kato Kaelin's room. Very little information about the murders at Bundy. Nothing about climbing the wall. Vannatter's affidavit said they learned, after talking to Arnelle and Kato, that Simpson had left on an "unexpected" trip to Chicago. More important, the information about Arnelle and Kato was a handwritten addition to the typed affidavit. Had the judge or someone else asked a question during the hearing that prompted Vannatter's addendum? Bill knew they'd called Cathy Randa and learned from her that Simpson's trip was a planned business trip. The detective had misrepresented the facts about the departure in order to obtain the search warrant. O.J.'s departure was not "unexpected." Vannatter knew that. Pavelic knew then that Vannatter had been forced into a further material omission, the omission of the fact that they had scaled the wall at Rockingham before obtaining the search warrant. He also noticed that the affidavit said that Simpson took the flight "in the early morning hours of June 13, 1994." That expanded the window available for the killings. The cops further "observed" the glove on the back walkway "during the securing of the residence." Whether intentional or not, the language suggested that the LAPD investigators had assumed at once they had a crime scene.
Vannatter wrote that "scientific investigation" confirmed that human blood was found on the Bronco. Pavelic knew that at the time he wrote the affidavit, only a routine presumptive test had been done.
Detective Vannatter had more than twenty years on the force, but his affidavit was amateurish. Why had he omitted so many damaging details? Pavelic suspected that the LAPD was rearranging things and embellishing information. Vannatter and Lange, for example, had failed to log themselves out of Bundy when they went to Rockingham. The police logs showed them signing out at ten A.M. as if they'd never left Nicole's condo.
He also noticed that the criminalists didn't list how many samples of each bloodstain were taken. A deliberate omission? No doubt in Pavelic's mind.
A few days before the preliminary hearing, Shapiro received a twenty nine-page memo outlining every mistake Pavelic saw..."
"...The week before, only two days after the Bronco chase, Pavelic had put together a memo for Shapiro asking for sixty-eight pieces of LAPD paperwork, ranging from communication tapes and follow-up investigative reports to the watch commander's daily reports. He also requested the table of contents for the murder books, which contained virtually everything the detectives had..."
"...Earlier in the week, when Mark Fuhrman said he had found the glove, Pavelic was stunned. This was the guy who found the glove? That night Pavelic went to his computer. By now he had a program in place that tracked every individual involved in the case: what evidence each person looked at, what reports each one filed..."
He couldn't find a single LAPD report identifying Fuhrman as the cop who found the glove. Not even the search warrant affidavit. As far as you could see in the paperwork, Fuhrman hadn't noticed the blood on and in the Bronco. He hadn't gone over the wall, hadn't interrogated Kato Kaelin. In fact, he hadn't been at Rockingham that morning.
The Bundy crime-scene log listed Fuhrman arriving at 2:10 A.M., leaving at ten A.M. Period. At Rockingham, he was logged in at 5:l5 the following afternoon and left at 7:10 P.M.
If the logs were to be believed, Fuhrman had never left Bundy to go to Rockingham with Vannatter, Lange, and Phillips. He hadn't returned to point at the Bundy glove while a police photographer snapped a picture. He didn't take a Polaroid of the Bundy glove to Rockingham so Vannatter could make a comparison. The man who wasn't there.
Pavelic started to put the facts together. Robert Deutsch, a lawyer Pavelic knew, called him that night. "Bill, do you realize who this Fuhrman is?" "I guess I don't." Fuhrman had been part of the Britton case, which Deutsch and Pavelic had worked together. A black man armed with a knife had robbed and brutally beaten people at automatic teller machines on L.A.'s West Side in 1988. Fuhrman was part of a CRASH Unit stakeout team that spotted Joseph Britton threatening someone with a knife at an ATM. Britton ran. He claimed he tossed the knife over a hedge before the cops chased him down. The CRASH team said Britton waved the knife at them.
They shot him six times. Most of the bullets came from Mark Fuhrman's gun. Britton claimed that Fuhrman walked back to the hedge to get the knife and dropped it beside him. "Are you still alive, nigger?" he sneered at the wounded man. Britton went to prison and sued the LAPD for using excessive force. Fuhrman was that cop. Once reminded of the connection, Pavelic remembered that the Britton incident was just one item in a hefty dossier.
Years earlier, Pavelic had checked out everyone on the CRASH team and found pure gold under Fuhrman's name. The detective had filed for a disability pension in September 1981. He wanted out because of stress. The records said that a department psychiatrist had given him a temporary medical leave a month before he filed. The detective complained that he was getting angrier and angrier at "low-class" people, notably Latino and black gang members-angry enough to kill someone. In one of the interview summaries, a doctor reported that Fuhrman used the word "nigger."
Pavelic knew that in April 1982 the Workers Compensation Appeals Board had judged Fuhrman temporarily disabled and given him time off. But a year later the Board of Pension Commissioners looked at a thick stack of contradictory psychiatric reports and concluded Fuhrman should go back to work.
"I'm going to need the pension reports and Fuhrman's psychological profiles," Bill told his friend. Deutsch was happy to send them to Shapiro.
Some therapists wrote that Fuhrman shouldn't carry a gun. Others felt he was exaggerating the street trouble he saw in hopes of bailing out of a job he didn't like with a golden parachute. The LAPD had an unusually large number of officers applying for stress pensions in those days. It was getting expensive. The force wasn't about to let anyone out easily. Fuhrman appealed the Pension Board judgment to Superior Court. That put his psychiatric evaluations on the public record.
Bill also began hearing from LAPD friends who had watched the preliminary hearings. "Please be advised that several LAPD police officers and detectives have contacted me and are eager to help O.J.," he wrote in a memo to Shapiro. "If there is one common denominator in these phone calls, it is that Mark Fuhrman is a pathological liar."
Of course, nothing is ever simple in an investigator's life. Pavelic began to suspect that the LAPD was sending him disinformation. Anything to make the defense waste time and money.
A letter signed "Blue" from a writer claiming to be a black LAPD lieutenant advised O.J. to hire Johnnie Cochran, and concluded: "All stops are being pulled in your case. Strings are being pulled across the country. The L.A.P.D. and the D.A. do not want to lose your case, so beware. I know for a fact that lies are being blended into your case."
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Bill Pavelic Speaking Out and Exposing Racism and Racist Cops
2007-08-02
In 1991, Bill Pavelic established himself as the foremost insider critic of racism and corruption in the LAPD.
Bill Pavelic has been the subject of many articles nationally and internationally for speaking out against and exposing racism that he personally witnessed as a LAPD Detective.
On June 30, 1992, Bill Pavelic sent the following letter to the Los Angeles Sentinel concerning the institutionalized racism, corruption, and sexism, of the LAPD under Chief Daryl Gates' leadership.
To: Los Angeles Sentinel Opinion Section
As a 19 year veteran of the Los Angeles Police Department, I am elated that Chief Gates was forced into retirement. His corrupt managerial style, coupled with his inflammatory and intemperate public comments, have done irreparable damage to the City of Los Angeles and its police department.
Daryl Gates and his close associates are suffering from a disease called megalomania......an exaggerated belief in their own greatness and that of the organization. In order to maintain a mythical status of being "the best law enforcement agency in the world" the LAPD management developed a bunker mentality and consciously impeded and retarded investigations or inquiries which reflected poorly on the organization. The "us against them" mentality required faulty analysis which was oftentimes based on pseudo reasoning, clever fallacies and distorted or manufactured evidence.
The disciplinary system under the leadership of Daryl Gates lacked consistency, uniformity and equality and sent a deplorable signal to others on the force, that it is OK to falsify official investigations, violate the LAPD manual, discredit the Code of Ethics and be dishonest as long as you are a member of management or have friends at the top who will protect you even when prima facie evidence of a crime is clearly evident.
Chief Gates has failed to hold accountable personnel under his control who were acting under the color of law and were exercising illegal direction under the guise of official authority. In no sphere of public life is this practice more repugnant than in law enforcement. Chief Gates, who morally bankrupt the Los Angeles Police Department, forgot, or never knew, that true leadership can be gained only by an intolerance of wrong doing...and...unless we all abide by the highest standards among ourselves, we have no business enforcing the law upon others.
Chief Gates used the Internal Affairs Division to intimidate those officers who dared to speak out against Los Angeles Police Department's institutionalized racism, corruption, sexism, mismanagement, promotional cronyism and other sensitive issues. If the Internal Affairs Division didn't get these "disloyal" police officers, like the Russian KGB, the organization could always count on the Medical Liaison Unit to send these officers to the Department shrink...to certify them as functionally crazy.
Under the leadership of Chief Williams, respect for individual dignity will once again become an integral part of the Los Angeles Police Department's philosophy...a philosophy that will be based on the principles of professionalism, reverence for the law and harmony between the police and the community it serves.
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Respectfully,
Bill Pavelic, Southwest Division
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