Regional Resources
CALIFORNIA
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
624 Ninth Street NW
Washington, DC 204 25
Telephone: (202) 376-8128
Community Concerns About Law Enforcement In Sonoma County
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/sac/ca0500/main.htm
Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality, and
Discrimination
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/larpt/main.htm
United States of America: California-Update on Police Brutality
Sept., 1999
Amnesty International
322 Eight Avenue
New York, NY 10001
http://www.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR511501999
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Report of the Special Committee on Police Misconduct and
Personnel Management of the Council of the District of Columbia
October 6, 1998
http://www.dcwatch.com/police/981006.htm
Council Police Misconduct and Personnel Management Special
Committee Establishment Emergency Resolution of 1997
Res. 12-344, December 16, 1997
http://www.dcwatch.com/archives/council12/12-344.htm
ILLINOIS
Problem solving in practice: Implementing community policing
in Chicago
April 2000
National Institute of Justice
810 Seventh St. NW
Washington, DC 20531
Telephone: (202) 307-2942
http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/179556.pdf
Summary of Concerns on Police Abuse in Chicago
October 1999
Amnesty International USA
322 Eight Avenue
New York, NY 10001
http://www.amnesty.org/library/index/ENGAMR511681999
MASSACHUSETTS
Massachusetts police brutality
Stories of police misconduct and brutality, web-links.
http://ourworld.cs.com/_ht_a/MassBrutality/index.html
NEW YORK
Police Practices and Civil Rights in New York City
August 2000
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
624 Ninth Street NW
Washington, DC 20425
Telephone: (202) 376-8128
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/nypolice/main.htm
NYPD response to the draft report of the United States Commission
on Civil Rights - Police practices and civil rights in New York
City 2000
New York City Police Department
1 Police Plaza
New York, N.Y. 10038
http://www.ci.nyc.ny.us/html/nypd/html/dclm/exsumm.html
Respectful and effective policing: Two examples in the South
Bronx
Vera Institute of Justice
377 Broadway, New York
NY 10013
Telephone: (212) 334-1300
Fax: (212) 941-9407
http://www.vera.org/Publications/Bronx-precinct.pdf
The New York City Police Department's "Stop and Frisk" Practices
Office of the Attorney General of New York, December, 1999
The Capitol
Albany, NY 12224-0341
(518) 474-7330
www.oag.state.ny.us/press/reports/stop_frisk/stp_frsk.pdf
SEATTLE
The Northwest Constitutional Rights Center
1020 SW Taylor St., Ste. 230
Portland, Oregon 97205
Telephone: (503) 241-0260
Contact person: Alan Graf, interim Executive Director, peopleslawyer@qwest.net
SOUTH DAKOTA
Native Americans in South Dakota: An Erosion of Confidence
in the Justice System
2000
U.S. Commision on Civil Rights
624 Ninth Street NW
Washington, DC 20425
Telephone: (202) 376 8128
http:www.usccr.gov/pubs/sac/sd0300/main.htm
VIRGINIA
Unequal Justice: African Americans in the Virginia Criminal
Justice System
April 2000
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
624 Ninth Street NW
Washington, DC 20425
Telephone: (202) 376-8128
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/sac/va0400/main.htm
WASHINGTON
CITIZENS REVIEW PANEL FINAL REPORT (Police misconduct in Seattle)
Office of the Clerk
600 Fourth Avenue
Room 104 Municipal Building
Seattle, WA 98104-1892
http://www.cityofseattle.net/html/crfinalreport.htm
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