Table of Contents
About the Author
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Preface
Disclaimer
CHAPTER I
POLICE ABUSE - COULD IT HAPPEN TO YOU OR YOUR FAMILY?
- Actions to Take If You Are Stopped by the Police in Your Car
- Actions to Take If You Are Stopped on the Streets
- Actions to Take If Police Knock At Your Door
- How and Where to File Complaints
CHAPTER 2
WHAT IS RACIAL PROFILING?
- What Can Happen if Law Enforcement
Practices Illegal Profiling?
- How to Implement Good Law Enforcement Programs Without Illegal Profiling
- What Resources are Available to Law Enforcement Agencies?
- What Officers Should Work in Highway Interdiction and other Aggressive Enforcement Programs?
- How Should Supervisors Respond to Racial Profiling Complaints?
- What Racial Profiling Laws Will Consist Of
CHAPTER 3
HOW TO FORM CRIMINAL JUSTICE COALITIONS
CHAPTER 4
HOW TO FORM CITIZEN REVIEW BOARDS
- Top 10 Functions of Citizen Review Boards
- Top 10 Most Common Problems with Citizen Review Boards?
CHAPTER 5
SUGGESTIONS TO STOP POLICE ABUSE
- Top Suggestions from the Community
- Suggestions from Human Rights Watch
This book was written by Cathy Harris to educate the comunity on how and why
Citizen Review Boards must be formed.
It was also created so you can learn your rights and save your life.
Police officers are committing racial profiling and police brutality in communities’ everyday. Tons of illegal incidents go unreported because many people fear the police.
The police go into mostly white neighborhoods to “protect and serve” and black neighborhoods to “harass.” This must change!
Despite the wave of police shootings and beatings of mostly young Blacks and Latinos during the last few years, the Justice Department has done almost nothing to nail abusive cops.
Advocates and activists don’t trust local police agencies to self-investigate or police themselves. Nor do they trust district attorneys, grand juries, police commissions or local officials to be any more fair and impartial when investigating the police.
The Justice Department has always had on their books a strong arsenal of civil rights statutes to prosecute abusive police officers. This office is equipped to dispatch their top civil rights lawyers to handle federal probes. But this will happen only if we demand it!
In the past --it has taken major media attention, large scale protests and even a major riot, such as Rodney King LA riot of 1992, before the Justice Department has used its legal weapons.
The Justice Department came under fire when advocates accused them of moving too slowly on racial profiling involving the New Jersey Turnpike. Eventually New Jersey officials admitted to racial profiling, stating that “minority motorists have been treated differently than non-minority motorists.”
Where there is evidence of racial profiling and/or police brutality (excessive force), the Attorney General must send a strong message to law enforcement agencies that the Justice Department will go after lawbreakers whether they wear a “mask” or “badge.”
This book is an action plan for the entire family. It will show you how to save your life when you interact with the police – in your car, in the streets and in your home.
