- All's Well That Ends Well
- Antony and Cleopatra
- As You Like It
- The Comedy of Errors
- Coriolanus
- Cymbeline
- Hamlet
- Henry IV, Part 1
- Henry IV, Part 2
- Henry V
- Henry VI, Part 1
- Henry VI, Part 2
- Henry VI, Part 3
- Henry VIII
- Julius Caesar
- King John
- King Lear
- Love's Labor's Lost
- A Lover's Complaint
- Macbeth
- Measure for Measure
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Othello
- Pericles
- The Rape of Lucrece
- Richard II
- Richard III
- Romeo and Juliet
- Shakespeare's Sonnets
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- Timon of Athens
- Titus Andronicus
- Troilus and Cressida
- Twelfth Night
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Venus and Adonis
- The Winter's Tale
Sergeant Charles Duke concludes his monologue by voicing what he suspects was the mindset of Daryl Gates and the LAPD Command staff after the Los Angeles City Council and Police Commission imposed new regulations that banned the use of upper-body-control holds.
In 1982, the Los Angeles City Council and Police Commission called for a ban on upper-body-control holds, citing a higher number of fatalities among apprehended people, primarily Black people, on whom officers were using this technique. According to Duke, LAPD chief Daryl Gates and his command staff retaliated against the ban by calling for the implementation of batons, knowing…