| Featured Report
Use of Deadly Force in Denver
The Denver Report was commissioned by the city in the wake of controversial officer-involved shootings. PARC was asked to review 24 officer-involved shootings and whether they were fully and fairly investigated by Internal Affairs. PARC also reviewed in detail Denver's use of force policies and training. Overall, the Denver Report concludes that the Denver Police Department in recent years is becoming a national leader. PARC makes a number of recommendations for further improvement to build upon the excellent progress to date. Click here to view report.
Twenty-Fifth Semiannual Report, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
This Semiannual Report examines two broad areas of the operations of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department—the provision of care to women who are inmates in the LA County Jail and the lessons learned from litigation. PARC concluded that although the Department has made progress in the provision of medical care to female inmates, particularly in the area of intake screening, there was a lack of accountability to ensure that inmates requesting treatment be seen within 24-72 hours as prescribed by nationally accepted standards. PARC also found that the investigation and resolution of inmate medical complaints was poor and should be improved, and made recommendations to improve the care and treatment of pregnant and postpartum inmates in custody. Finally, PARC found that the LASD has experienced a welcome reduction in the number of new lawsuits filed against it in recent years, and that force-related litigation represents a smaller proportion of total liability than it once did. However, gains in the reduction of force-related litigation must be balanced against increases in litigation arising from custody. Click here to view report.
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| Recent Reports
A Bad Night at Powell Library: The Events of November 14, 2006 At the behest of UCLA Acting Chancellor Norman Abrams, PARC was engaged to investigate a November 2006 incident in which the UCLA campus police repeatedly tasered a UCLA student who refused to produce his student identification after hours in the main campus library. PARC conducted a seven-month investigation of the facts, including exhaustive research on the Taser itself, on the policies and practices of other universities and police departments regarding use of the Taser, and on the best and recommended practices regarding the Taser formulated by the leading authorities and experts on the question, including model policies drafted by police organizations such as the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF). Click here to review report.
Promoting Police Accountability and Community Relations in
Farmington: Strengthening the Citizen Police Advisory Committee
PARC examined the Farmington, New Mexico police oversight agency, making a number of recommendations for strengthening it. In particular, PARC proposed the hiring of a full-time staff member who would monitor the citizen and internal complaint process at the Police Department. PARC also examined and made recommendations concerning the Police Department's Internal Affairs investigations, use of force reporting, officer-involved shooting investigations, and early identification system. Click here to view report. The Portland Police Bureau: Officer-Involved Shootings and In-Custody Deaths
In the second follow-up report to its seminal 2003 Report on Portland Police Bureau officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths, PARC examines the Bureau's mainly positive responses to 25 recommendations concerning its internal processes for reviewing officer-involved shootings and in-custody deaths and its management of records and information. The report also reviews 10 officer-involved shootings that occurred in 2002 and 2003. Click here to view report.
Pasadena Police-Community Relations Assessment
The John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation provided PARC with support to carry out a Police-Community Relations Assessment in Pasadena, California. Working with its parent organization, the Vera Institute of Justice, PARC used two different types of surveys to measure levels of community and officer satisfaction in Pasadena. The surveys addressed a wide breadth of issues through the surveys including police-community relations, quality of police services, and police-public contacts. Click here to view report. Evaluation of Milwaukee's Fire and Police Commission
PARC and Richard Jerome, PC, were hired by the City of Milwaukee to evaluate the Fire and Police Commission and make recommendations for improvement. That evaluation, "Promoting Police Accountability in Milwaukee: Strengthening the Fire and Police Commission," was made public in June 2006. Click here to view the report.
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