Controversy
During his first stint as Police Chief, Davis was involved in the scandal surrounding the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders. (In the 2008 film Changeling, based on these events, Davis was played by Colm Feore.)
For several months in 1936, during the height of the devastation from the "Dust Bowl", Chief Davis sent L.A.P.D. to the California-Arizona border in an attempt to stop the flow of migrants. These migrants were commonly referred to as "Okies", named for the early migrants who fled Oklahoma after the state was ravaged by the Dust Bowl.
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