Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Daryl Gates is dead. The Los Angeles Times reports:
Daryl F. Gates, Los Angeles police chief during the city’s deadly 1992 riots, has died. He was 83…. Gates, who led the department for 14 years, was in charge at the time of the 1991 beating of Rodney King and the riots that followed.
Chief Gates was awarded the 1992 Ig Nobel Peace Prize for his uniquely compelling methods of bringing people together.