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Accountability and civilian oversight have transformed Los Angeles’ police culture. But the job isn’t complete yet.
The good news in L.A. these days is that the epic struggle to reform the Los Angeles Police Department, which caused some of the deadliest American riots of the 20th Century, and so fiercely dominated and divided the city, is finally nearing its end.
Citizens that experienced one or more traffic stops in the past year were less likely to contact the police for assistance or to report a neighborhood problem, researchers found in a new study. Using Police—Public Contact Survey data, the report looked at race and demographics in their findings.
Read the study here.
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In the last 30 years almost all of the police who have been shot and killed by fellow officers have been of color. This report works to identify specific actions that police agencies and government at every level can take to reduce the effect of racial bias in police shootings.
Read the full report here.
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Next month marks the one year anniversary of the arrest of Harvard Professor Henry Louis (Skip) Gates in his own home in Cambridge, Ma., and President Obama’s subsequent “beer summit” with Gates and arresting officer James Crowley. In a new book on the case, Gates’ attorney, Harvard law Prof. Charles Ogletree, concludes that the U.S. has “a long way to go to address the issue of racial justice, particularly in the criminal justice system.” In “The Presumption of Guilt,” Ogletree says the U.S. has learned little about the issue since the 1991 beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles led to riots. He spoke about the book yesterday at the University of the District of Columbia in Washington. (more…)
