Tom Leykis. His tenure was short lived, but he remained a frequent guest on talk radio, especially in regard to policing issues. Businessman Gates was President/CEO of Global ePoint, a security and homeland defense company dealing primarily in digital surveillance and security technology. He also served on the Advisory Board of PropertyRoom.com, a website for police auctions. Autobiography In 1992 he published Chief: My Life in the LAPD, an autobiography, written with the assistance of Diane K. Shah (Bantam Books). The book has details about Gates's career and high-profile cases; the book went to press before the L.A. riots. Later years After Bernard Parks was denied a second term as Chief of Police by Mayor James K. Hahn in 2002, Gates, aged 75, told CNN that he intended to apply for his old job as LAPD chief. Hahn ultimately appointed William J. Bratton, a former police commissioner of Boston and New York City, to head the department. Death On April 16, 2010, Gates died at his home in Dana Point, California, at the age of 83 due to complications from bladder cancer. In popular culture Gates appeared as himself in season 7, episode 13 ("Fatal Obsession, Part 2") of the television show Hunter. Gates appears in an uncredited role at the end of the 1997 film L.A. Confidential as a police officer congratulating Ed Exley, the main character. In the 1998 film American History X, he is mentioned in relation to the application of police brutality to Rodney King. Gene Hackman based his portrayal of Sheriff Daggett on Gates in the 1992 film Unforgiven. Clint Eastwood biographer Richard Schickel, who was on the set, wrote that Hackman referred to Daggett overseeing Ned Logan's torture as "my Rodney King scene". In 2004, he appeared in second season of Da Ali G Show in the episode "Respek". Gates is portrayed by actor Josh Pence in the 2013 film Gangster Squad. In the film, Gates is in his younger years, still a chauffeur for LAPD Police Chief Bill Parker (played by Nick Nolte). Gates was mentioned in a large number of rap and metal songs in the aftermath of the LA riots. Some of the more notable include Ice Cube's "The Wrong Nigga to Fuck With", which dedicates a whole verse to a depiction of Gates's being decapitated and cooked like fried chicken, and Body Count's "Cop Killer", which caused widespread controversy. See