RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Iconic LA Police Chief Daryl Gates has bladder cancer

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Iconic LA Police Chief Daryl Gates has bladder cancer

ASSOCIATED PRESS
By ROBERT JABLON (AP)

LOS ANGELES — Former Los Angeles police Chief Daryl Gates, a controversial figure who once said drug users should be shot and whose career ended after the Rodney King beating, is hospitalized and seriously ill, current police Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday.

Beck told the city Police Commission that Gates, 83, has a "very serious malady."

"I ask everyone to keep him in their prayers," said Beck, who visited the former chief in the hospital over the weekend.

The Police Department would not specify Gates' ailment. However, a blog posting attributed to his brother Steve Gates said the former chief had been hospitalized for three weeks with bladder cancer that had spread to a bone near his hip and he was receiving radiation treatments.

The blog, called "The Rotator," is not made available to the general public and is available only to current and retired officers who provide badge information. The information on the blog was provided by a person with access to the site who was not authorized to disclose its contents and asked to remain anonymous.

Efforts by The Associated Press to reach Steve Gates were unsuccessful. Beck declined to confirm or deny the report, but said Daryl Gates was responding well to treatments after being hospitalized a couple weeks ago.

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