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Letter from President
 Welcome to the website for the National
Police Accountability Project (NPAP). Our website is designed
to provide you with information about NPAP and to provide resource
information for members and visitors. General information and
links to other websites are available to everyone. Some benefits
are for members only for example, our quarterly newsletter, access to the
listserv and updates on important developments in the case
law from Professor Michael Avery.
NPAP is dedicated to holding
police officers accountable to the public they serve. Greater accountability
is served by increasing the public’s knowledge of police conduct and control
over discipline. This can be achieved in part through lawsuits but also by citizen
review boards and through freedom of information requests and reports in
the press.
We are concerned with accountability
for other law enforcement officers including jail and prison guards along with
private “special” police officers and security guards. Our organization
has filed friend of the court briefs supporting disclosure of records of campus
police officers as public records because of the important public function these
officers fulfill when they use the police powers provided to them by the state.
Our members use civil rights
lawsuits as a means to obtain compensation for victims of police abuse, including
excessive force, false arrest, illegal strip-searches and other civil rights
violations. We seek to obtain changes in police procedures and to focus attention
on a lack of accountability which exists in many police departments. We also
provide support to community groups that are concerned with police accountability. This
support includes providing information on changes in police procedures which
can help an agency hold its officers accountable.
We serve as a link for
lawyers who are concerned with police misconduct. By sharing strategies and information
we hope to improve our collective ability to bring about greater accountability
for law enforcement officers.
NPAP sponsors continuing
legal education seminars across the country on police misconduct issues.
NPAP members are lawyers,
legal workers and law students who are working to support civil rights and policing
that respects the rights of people in the community. If this describes you, please
join us.
Sincerely,
Howard
Friedman
Howard Friedman
Law Offices of Howard Friedman, P.C.
90 Canal Street, 5th Floor
Boston, Massachusetts 02114
Telephone: (617) 742-4100
Telecopier: (617) 742-5858
Email: hfriedman@civil-rights-law.com
A law firm concentrating in civil rights and police misconduct litigation
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