Forum (Forum & Focus)
Oct. 31, 2008
Dismissing the numbers is no comfort to the minorities who are stopped more often.
The LAPD can claim credit for the things it has done to address racial bias, but with the stark disparities shown by the ACLU report, it cannot just let the matter rest, write Mark Rosenbaum and Peter Bibring. - Forum Column
FORUM COLUMN
By Mark Rosenbaum and Peter Bibring Concerns about race and policing run deep in the history Los Angeles. In examining the causes of the Watts Riots of 1965, the McCone Commission wrote of a "deep and longstanding schism" between substantial portions the African American community and the LAPD, focused on issues of excessive force. More than 25 years later, the Christopher Commi...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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