Constitutional basis to police accountability and oversight? Request for offline

[Margo Schlanger]

The best source on federal civil rights prosecutions of which I'm aware
is a 1998 Human Rights Watch report, available at:
http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police/toc.htm.  It has all that I know is
out there about numbers.  It cites a 1993 piece in the U.S.C. Law
Review, by Paul Hoffman, which might be useful for you, as well.  

 

In addition, there is a very interesting case study of one civil rights
prosecution, against a group of prison guards, posted at the Civil
Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, by Dena Shorago (my student):  it's
here:
http://clearinghouse.wustl.edu/chDocs/studies/STUDY_PC-CO-0010-Shorago.p
df 

 

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From: matthewhpolsci at aol.com [mailto:matthewhpolsci at aol.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 11:23 PM
To: Margo Schlanger; edale1 at bellsouth.net;
bholland at lawschool.gonzaga.edu; CONLAWPROF at lists.ucla.edu
Subject: Re: Constitutional basis to police accountability and
oversight? Request for offline

 

 I am not expert in this but am very interested.  I  would be glad to
have anything further that anyone wishes to send offline.  I do not know
enough to make it worthwhile for the whole list to have this on line.

 

One of the things that interests me may not rise to the dignity of
"constitutional" at all.  But every year or so there is some ethnic
dispute (usually white against black) in which the families or friends
of the black victim (as it usually, but not always, is) asks for Federal
intervention.  The press will report that there is some investigation by
the FBI and/or US Attorney (sometimes with the cooperation of the local
police or DA, somegtimes not).

 

Almost never can I find out what happened afterward.  I would also like
to what happens to get the cases from the CRD to the Criminal Division
and if it is a lot quantitatively or just a lot in the minds of those of
us who care.

 

MH 

 



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