Fwd: [BRC-ANN] Police Brutality: Cincinnati Aftermath

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>From: Sam Husseini <sam at accuracy.org>
>Subject: [BRC-ANN] Police Brutality: Cincinnati Aftermath
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>Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:13:03 -0500 (EST)
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>Institute for Public Accuracy
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>Friday, April 13, 2001
>
>Interviews Available:
>
>POLICE BRUTALITY: CINCINNATI AFTERMATH
>
>With Cincinnati in crisis amid protests against police
>shootings, the following analysts are available for
>interviews:
>
>DE LACY DAVIS, bcap at compuserve.com,
>http://b-cap.tripod.com/b-cap_index.html
>
>The founder and president of Black Cops Against Police
>Brutality and a 15-year veteran of the East Orange, N.J.,
>police department, Davis is a sergeant in the community
>services unit. He said today: "Often the victims of police
>brutality are minority males, usually black or Latino or
>poor whites. I'm a police officer, but the police cannot
>police the police. Until there's a crisis, these issues are
>ignored, then we begin to see a system respond to their pain
>-- and then only in incremental steps. For two years we've
>been warning that it's a powder keg in Cincinnati. The city
>charter requires that the police chief comes from within the
>department, but that's not always best, it could simply
>recycle the same culture of racism and violence. Allegedly
>the police chief in Cincinnati referred to an officer as a
>'n-word' at a management seminar last year. Civilian boards
>need more power, like subpoena power. Militaristic attitudes
>by the police need to be replaced with a community policing
>philosophy and an African-American centered paradigm in
>African-American communities."
>
>
>ALLYSON COLLINS, collina at hrw.org,
>http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police
>
>Senior researcher on U.S. issues at Human Rights Watch and
>author of the report "Shielded from Justice: Police
>Brutality and Accountability in the U.S."
>
>
>MARY D. POWERS, http://web.syr.edu/~nkrhodes/N-COPA.html
>
>Powers is coordinator of the National Coalition on Police
>Accountability based in Chicago.
>
>
>ROBERTO RODRIGUEZ, xcolumn at aol.com,
>http://www.uexpress.com/columnoftheamericas
>
>Author of "Justice: A Question of Race" and co-author of the
>syndicated "Column of the Americas," Rodriguez won a federal
>civil rights lawsuit against the Los Angeles Sheriff's
>Department for brutality against him. He said today:
>"Rioting is societal breakdown. It is what happens when
>people are brutalized and dehumanized...when they feel they
>have no recourse and no voice. In most cases, law
>enforcement abuses never make it to trial. We desperately
>need a national truth commission."
>
>
>SAM WALKER, samwalker at unomaha.edu
>
>Author of "Police Accountability: The Role of Citizen
>Oversight" and professor of criminal justice at the
>University of Nebraska at Omaha, Walker said today: "Given
>the number of fatal shootings of African Americans -- 15
>since 1995 -- there's clearly a problem in Cincinnati. The
>ACLU is suing the police department. Other departments, like
>Minneapolis and San Jose, have established mechanisms of
>civilian oversight which have received support from the
>police departments and the mayors of those cities. You need
>early warning systems like citizen complaints and use of
>force reports to identify problem officers."
>
>
>For more information, contact at the Institute for Public
>Accuracy:
>
>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>
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