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Monitoring Standards
Pursuant to a grant from the United States Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance, PARC has prepared a draft set of guidelines for federal, state, and local monitors of law enforcement agencies. PARC has been assisted in this effort by a working group comprised of monitors, law enforcement executives, and academic experts in the field of civilian monitoring of law enforcement. By publishing these proposed national guidelines, PARC solicits input and comment from the wider community of interested persons in this important topic in American law enforcement. Please send any comments and suggestions on or before March 1, 2008 to PARC's Executive Assistant, Norma Zamudio, at normazamudio@parc.info. Click here to see guidelines.
Twenty-Fourth Semiannual Report, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
PARC's year-long look at Internal Affairs investigations of officer-involved shootings and highly injurious force cases in the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department (LASD). PARC concludes that approximately half of IA investigations are thorough; the other half could have been better. There were some excellent reviews as well as some that fell short, including one case described at length in the Appendix at page 39, where the investigation was seriously flawed. Internal affairs investigations and reviews are presented to a panel of LASD commanders who decide if the use of force in question was within policy. PARC concludes that the reviews of shootings and other serious force cases by that panel are conducted substantively and procedurally in a manner that is a credit to the LASD. Click here to review report.
| | | 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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