National Organizations
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
125 Broad Street, 18th Floor
New York, NY 10004-2400
Telephone: (212) 549-2585
http://www.aclu.org/
http://www.aclu.org/issues/policepractices/hmpolice.html (Online
archive of police practice materials)
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) works to protect first
amendment rights, right to due process, right to privacy, right
to equal protection under the law, and works to extend rights to
segments of our population that have traditionally been denied
their rights For more information on the ACLU you can visit
their website.
Cornell Legal Information Institute
Cornell University Law School
601 Myron Taylor Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-9577 (library telephone number)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
Legal Information Institute is a free resource for public legal
information. The site offers Supreme Court opinions, New
York Court of Appeals opinions, and the full United States
Code. It also publishes libraries in legal ethics and social
security and a series of topical pages summarizing roughly 100
areas of law.
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights
PO Box 1230 Market Street, #409
San Francisco, CA 94102
Telephone: (415) 951-4844
http://www.ellabakercenter.org/
Focused on police brutality, the Ella Baker Center maintains a hotline, tracks
data, refers potential clients to good lawyers and helps community groups works
towards reform of police behavior. The organization offers training to
lawyers and maintains a database of briefs and model pleadings.
Forfeiture Endangers American Rights (FEAR)
FEAR Foundation
265 Miller Avenue
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Telephone: (888) FEAR-001
www.fear.org
FEAR is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to the reform
of federal and state asset forfeiture laws. The organization's
goal is to restore due process and protect property rights in the
forfeiture process. The FEAR website includes information regarding
police and prosecutorial abuses of forfeiture laws.
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
PO Box 6000
Rockville, MD 20849-6000
Telephone: (800) 851-3420 or (301)519-5500
TTY Service for the Hearing Impaired: (877) 712-9279 or (301) 947-8374
http://ncjrs.aspensys.com/
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance
abuse information to support research, policy, and program development
worldwide.
NCJRS offers extensive reference and referral services to answer
your questions about crime and justice-related research, policy,
and practice.
The National Association for Civilian Oversight of Law
Enforcement (NACOLE)
PO Box 19621
Denver, CO 80219
Telephone: (866) 4-NACOLE (462-2653)
http://www.nacole.org
NACOLE is a nonprofit organization of civilian oversight practitioners
and supporters working to promote fair, firm and consistent law
enforcement in the United States through the practice of civilian
oversight. NACOLE provides communication to the oversight
community and other interested persons through newsletters, conferences,
trainings, news and academic article dissemination.
National Coalition on Police Accountability (N-COPA)
59 East Van Buren, #2418
Chicago, IL 60605
Telephone: (312) 663-5392
Fax: (312) 663-5396
Contact: Mary D. Powers, National Coordinator
N-COPA is an organization of religious, community, legal groups
and progressive law enforcement representatives working to hold
police accountable to their communities, through public education,
community organizing, legislation, litigation, and promotion of
empowered independent oversight.
Police Misconduct Action Network (PMAN)
Fordham University School of Law
140 West 62nd Street
New York, NY 10023
Telephone: (212) 636-6961
http://www.fordham.edu/law/pirc/pman.htm
A joint collaboration between Fordham University's Public Interest
Resource Center, Fordham Law School's Crowley Program in International
Human Rights, and the New York Civil Liberties Union. PMAN seeks
to address the issue of police misconduct as both a domestic human
rights and a civil rights issue.
The Police Complaint Center
4244-223 W. Tennessee Street
Tallahassee, FL 32304
Telephone: (850) 894-6819
http://www.policeabuse.com/
The Police Complaint Center is a national
nonprofit organization that provides assistance to victims of
police misconduct. Using available technology, the Police Complaint
Center documents and investigates alleged incidents of police
abuse.
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