- Born
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- Birth nameDaryl Francis Gates
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- Chief
- Founder of the SWAT team and Chief of the Los Angeles Police department for longer than any other Chief in the history of the Los Angeles Police department. Daryl Gates was born on August 30, 1926 in California. He is considered one of the most influential leaders in LAPD history and was famous for his strong stance against drugs. Before becoming the chief of the LAPD in 1978 he was head of intelligence, and in the early 1960s the security/driver for the legendary Chief Parker. Later on in 1993 he joined the Sierra Online company to help out with the PC game Police Quest Open Season and also with other Police Quest games including Police Quest: SWAT, Police Quest: SWAT 2. On April 16, 2010, Daryl Gates died of Bladder Cancer at his home in Dana Point, California at the age 83.- IMDb Mini Biography By: John
- SpousesSima Lalich(February 20, 1970 - 1994) (divorced)Wanda Hawkins(1946 - 1965) (divorced, 3 children)
- Was the chauffeur of legendary LAPD chief William H.Parker during the sixties.
- Was the founder of the first Special Weapons And Tactics unit.
- Was the founder of the D.A.R.E (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program.
- From September 1949 until June 1992, he was a member of the Los Angeles Police Department. From 1978 to June 1992, he was Police Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department.
- Although Gates was nominally hired as the "author" of Police Quest: Open Season (1993), the game was chiefly written and designed by Tammy Dargan, a Sierra producer formerly of the television show America's Most Wanted. Gates gave her script notes and the two would toss the existing series fiction, and ground it in the gritty, violent Los Angeles that Gates knew.
- We are the butchers of society. Everybody wants to eat meat, but nobody wants to know how it's made! Which is exactly the same thing in law enforcement. Everybody wants safe streets, but nobody wants to know how it'll be done!
- About the Rodney King beating: "I was shocked like everybody else. And I knew that type of incident was going to happen since the suppression of the choke-hold appliance."
- Los Angeles today is not like the city I knew when I started as a police officer. Over the years I saw L.A. falling apart piece by piece due to gang violence. Right now, we don't own the streets, they do!
- It is not easy, and I think that's another part of the reality we want to get to the people who are not involved in the police business. To see how frustrating it can be. [From the Police Quest: Open Season Interview.]
- It's very important I think for people to see what a detective actually has to go through and that's and I hope of what I'm bringing this game, the reality of what detective work is all about. [From the Police Quest: Open Season Interview.]
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