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James T. Butts, Jr. (born August 1, 1953) is the 12th and current Mayor of the City of Inglewood, California. He is the 4th African-American Mayor of the City of Inglewood. Previously he served the City of Inglewood for 19 years where he received several promotions until he was sworn in as Deputy Chief of Police for the City of Inglewood. In September 1991 he was sworn in as Chief of Police for the City of Santa Monica, California serving from 1991 to 2006.

In August 2006 James T. Butts Jr. was appointed to the position of Deputy Executive Director for Public Safety for the Los Angeles World Airports.

Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona where he received an MBA in June 1994. He was a California State University-Los Angeles (CSULA) graduate with a Bachelor's Degree before earning his MBA. He also holds a number of command and management certificates from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). He is a graduate of the POST Command College and a past president of the Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County. He has received several certifications and training from the National Incident Management System - Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Mr. Butts served for 19 years in the City of Inglewood Police Department (IPD) from 1972 to 1991. During 1986 the then Captain of the City Of Inglewood Police Department, Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. was a pioneer in community-based policing concepts. In 1991 Mr. Butts became the youngest chief of police in Southern California when he was sworn in at the age of 38 as the Chief of Police for the City of Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD). Mr. Butts served for 15 years from 1991 to 2006 as Chief. During his service as Chief, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) also adopted the concepts of Community-Based Policing. In 2006 Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) named Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. Deputy Executive Director for Public Safety (DED). Mr. Butts was issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) an intelligence classification of Secret. While serving as the leader of the LAWA police and security forces Mr. Butts served as the intergovernmental counterterrorism liaison. His campaign for Mayor of the City of Inglewood, California began in March 2010, and after a close and difficult campaign against the incumbent Mayor Daniel K Tabor he was elected to become the fourth African America Mayor of Inglewood. After defeating Mr. Tabor in a City of Inglewood Special Municipal Runoff Election on January 11, 2011 the City of Inglewood Mayoral race results were certified by the Inglewood City Council on January 25, 2011.

As Mayor of the City of Inglewood, Mr. Butts must faced one of the most difficult fiscal budget for the City of Inglewood. In--Theairport12 (talk) 13:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)--Theairport12 (talk) 13:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)heriting a $17.6 million dollar structural deficit, Mayor Butts balanced the budget and has overseen two consecutive financially balanced budgets. In 2012, Mayor James Butts negotiated a development agreement with Madison Square Gardens of New York that resulted in the purchase of the Forum by MSG from Faithful Central Bible Church. The Forum will re-open January 15, 2014. The initial act will be The Eagles. In 2013, Mayor Butts negotiated an agreement with Los Angeles World Airports to restore lost Residential Sound Insulation funding. The City of Inglewood is on pace to insulate 1,000 homes by May of 2014.

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 '''James T. Butts, Jr'''. (born August 1, 1953)  is the 12th and current Mayor of the City of [[Inglewood, California]].  He is the 4th [[African-American]] Mayor of the City of Inglewood.  Previously he served the City of Inglewood for 19 years where he received several promotions until he was sworn in as Deputy Chief of Police for the City of Inglewood. In September 1991 he was sworn in as Chief of Police for the City of [[Santa Monica, California]] serving from 1991 to 2006.
-As the Police Chief of Santa Monica, California, James Butts gained some negative national notoriety in the area of Civil Rights as the lead defendant in the landmark Civil Rights case entitled “California Attorneys for Criminal Justice v. Butts,” whose Constitutional issues were eventually addressed in the case “Butts v. McNally.”
-Butts v. McNally involved a request to California’s Ninth Circuit Court by the case’s defendants, including Butts, for a preliminary ruling on the case.  The defendant officers, including Butts, asserted that they were immune from being sued as individuals because they were law enforcement officers, and law enforcement officers are usually given “Qualified Immunity” (http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/qualified_immunity) from being sued as individuals for any actions they take while on duty; plaintiffs are usually required to sue whatever agency, City, County, State, etc., for whom the officers are employed.
-The basis for a defense of “Qualified Immunity,"(http://www.romingerlegal.com/ninth_circuit/9th_circuit/1765ninthcircuit.html) is that officers are not held personally liable for their actions while on duty, because it is assumed that the officers are legally carrying out their duties.  So, the defendants, including James Butts, asked that the Court rule in favor of the defendants and dismiss the case. However, the Court did not agree and denied the defendant's request.
-James T. Butts Jr.’s involvement in the case focused on the fact that, as Chief of Santa Monica’s Police Department, James Butts approved a policy of, and therefore helped train officers to, question suspects “outside Miranda.”  In other words, officers were trained to continue questioning suspects who were in police custody even after the suspects had been read their “Miranda Rights” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_rights) and had then asserted their Constitutional Right under the Fifth Amendment to “remain silent” and/or to speak to an attorney.
-An article entitled “Are Police Free to Disregard Miranda?,” from volume 112 of the Yale Law Review, from December 2002 (http://www.yalelawjournal.org/the-yale-law-journal/volume-112,-issue-3,-december-2002/) (http://www.yalelawjournal.org/pdf/112-3/ClymerFINAL.pdf) states on page 490, quote, “The defendant police departments and officers conceded the existence of both the training materials and the policy of deliberately violating the Miranda rules. The policy was designed to obtain statements that, although inadmissible in the prosecution’s case-in-chief, could be used to impeach suspects who chose to testify in their criminal cases,” unquote.
-The Court denied the requests of Butts and the other defendants for a summary judgment, saying that the officers were not eligible for the same “Qualified Immunity” against being sued as individuals that all law enforcement officers usually receive, because it was highly unlikely that any reasonable officer would have honestly believed that what these officers were doing was legal.
-Having lost their appeals to California’s Ninth District Court of Appeals, James Butts and the other defendants then made a request for Certorari (a review of the lower Court’s decision) to the United States Supreme Court.  However, in October 1999, the Supreme Court denied that request to review the case. ([http://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/boundvolumes/530bv.pdf www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/boundvolumes/530bv.pdf]) (Butts ET AL v. McNally, page 1261).
-The Civil Rights implications of Butts v. McNally and Butts ET AL v. McNally were very significant, clearly condemning inappropriate police tactics that violate American's Fifth Amendment Rights given by the U.S. Constitution.  Even though there had been at least one previous court case before Butts v. McNally where the Court ruled that the Rights given to American Citizens under “Miranda” were clearly established law, some law enforcement agencies continued to maintain policies which sanctioned and/or trained police officers to illegally violate the Miranda rules in order to obtain a tactical advantage at trial.
-However, after California's Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals made its decision in Butts v. McNally, and after the refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to even review the case, a clear message was sent to law enforcement agencies throughout the country.  Law enforcement officers and agencies could no longer claim ignorance that individual police officers could be sued by citizens for violating the Miranda rules and violating citizen’s Civil Rights.
-To quote a Law enforcement advocate’s website about the practice of officers questioning suspects “outside Miranda” after the results of Butts v. McNally, quote, “…the bottom line is, just don’t do it.”
  In August 2006 James T. Butts Jr. was appointed to the position of Deputy Executive Director for Public Safety for the Los Angeles World Airports.
 Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. is a graduate of [[Cal Poly Pomona]] where he received an MBA in June 1994.  He was a [[California State University-Los Angeles]] (CSULA) graduate with a Bachelor's Degree before earning his MBA. He also holds a number of command and management certificates from the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST). He is a graduate of the POST Command College and a past president of the Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County.  He has received several certifications and training from the National Incident Management System - Federal Emergency Management Agency.
-Mr. Butts served for 19 years in the City of Inglewood Police Department (IPD) from 1972 to 1991.  Coincidentally, the number of violent crimes committed in Inglewood in 1991, 2,722 violent crimes, was the highest number in more than a decade and a number that has never been matched since (http://www.cityofinglewood.org/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=4365). During 1986 the then Captain of the City Of Inglewood Police Department, Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. was a pioneer in community-based policing concepts.  In 1991 Mr. Butts became the youngest chief of police in Southern California when he was sworn in at the age of 38 as the Chief of Police for the City of Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD).  Mr. Butts served for 15 years from 1991 to 2006 as Chief.  During his service as Chief, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) also adopted the concepts of Community-Based Policing.  In 2006 Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) named Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. Deputy Executive Director for Public Safety (DED).  Mr. Butts was issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) an intelligence classification of Secret.  While serving as the leader of the LAWA police and security forces Mr. Butts served as the intergovernmental counterterrorism liaison.  His campaign for Mayor of the City of Inglewood, California began in March 2010, and after a close and difficult campaign against the incumbent Mayor Daniel K Tabor he was elected to become the fourth African America Mayor of Inglewood.  After defeating Mr. Tabor in a City of Inglewood Special Municipal Runoff Election on January 11, 2011 the City of Inglewood Mayoral race results were certified by the Inglewood City Council on January 25, 2011.
+Mr. Butts served for 19 years in the City of Inglewood Police Department (IPD) from 1972 to 1991.  During 1986 the then Captain of the City Of Inglewood Police Department, Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. was a pioneer in community-based policing concepts.  In 1991 Mr. Butts became the youngest chief of police in Southern California when he was sworn in at the age of 38 as the Chief of Police for the City of Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD).  Mr. Butts served for 15 years from 1991 to 2006 as Chief.  During his service as Chief, the Santa Monica Police Department (SMPD) also adopted the concepts of Community-Based Policing.  In 2006 Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) named Mr. James T. Butts, Jr. Deputy Executive Director for Public Safety (DED).  Mr. Butts was issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) an intelligence classification of Secret.  While serving as the leader of the LAWA police and security forces Mr. Butts served as the intergovernmental counterterrorism liaison.  His campaign for Mayor of the City of Inglewood, California began in March 2010, and after a close and difficult campaign against the incumbent Mayor Daniel K Tabor he was elected to become the fourth African America Mayor of Inglewood.  After defeating Mr. Tabor in a City of Inglewood Special Municipal Runoff Election on January 11, 2011 the City of Inglewood Mayoral race results were certified by the Inglewood City Council on January 25, 2011.
+As Mayor of the City of Inglewood, Mr. Butts must faced one of the most difficult fiscal budget for the City of Inglewood. In--[[User:Theairport12|Theairport12]] ([[User talk:Theairport12|talk]]) 13:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)--[[User:Theairport12|Theairport12]] ([[User talk:Theairport12|talk]]) 13:47, 31 August 2013 (UTC)heriting a $17.6 million dollar structural deficit, Mayor Butts balanced the budget and has overseen two consecutive financially balanced budgets. In 2012, Mayor James Butts negotiated a development agreement with Madison Square Gardens of New York that resulted in the purchase of the Forum by MSG from Faithful Central Bible Church.  The Forum will re-open January 15, 2014.  The initial act will be The Eagles.  In 2013, Mayor Butts negotiated an agreement with Los Angeles World Airports to restore lost Residential Sound Insulation funding.  The City of Inglewood is on pace to insulate 1,000 homes by May of 2014.
-As Mayor of the City of Inglewood, Mr. Butts must face one of the most difficult fiscal budget for the City of Inglewood.
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 [[Category:Mayors of Inglewood, California]]
 [[Category:African-American politicians]]
-[[Category:Miranda Rights]]
-[[Category:Police Misconduct]]
-[[Category:Butts v. McNally]]
-[[Category:California Attorneys For Criminal Justice v. James T. Butts, City of Santa Monica Chief of Police]]