Urban Perspective; Police Reform Is Not Only Doable, It's Imperative
Sentinel; Los Angeles, Calif. › August 05, 2009
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Devin Brown, Susie Pena, Stanley Miller, Rodney King, Margaret Mitchell, Leonard Deadwiler, Eula Love and countless others, were all victims of the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) grotesque underbelly. Consistent rulings that cops' brutal behavior is "within policy" perpetuate an "us vs. them" culture that has not changed. (Unless African Americans hold the police accountable, they are complicit in the very atrocities they so vehemently denounce.)
Danny Bakewell, Executive Publisher/CEO of the Los Angeles Sentinel and president of the Brotherhood Crusade convened the "Community Commission on Police Abuse." Commission members were non-public officials representing a cross-section of the community. It maintained Stanley Miller's beating "evoked a sense of an on-going racialized pattern of abuse directed toward the African American community--whether continuous police profiling, shootings and killings, or the numerous mistaken and gratuitous home invasions..." "Such a persistent and widespread pattern of police abuse and violence is not just a few rogue cops, but the result of departmental policies and practices."See the full content of this document
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Urban Perspective; Police Reform Is Not Only Doable, It's Imperative
Devin Brown, Susie Pena, Stanley Miller, Rodney King, Margaret Mitchell, Leonard Deadwiler, Eula Love and countless others, were all victims of the Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) grotesque underbelly. Consistent rulings that cops' brutal behavior ...
See the full content of this document
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