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Premier Issue: December 10, 1994:
International Human Rights Day
Report from Santa Fe: 1994 National Conference/ Mary D. Powers * N-COPA: The First Decade/ Mary D. Powers * Mary D.Powers: A Profile * Accountability to the Community on the Use of Deadly Force/ Eileen Luna * Policing and the Death Penalty/ Pat Clark * Introduction to Communities in Support of the Gang Truce * N-COPA Endorsement of Justice for Gary Graham * New Federal Power to Investigate Police "Pattern and Practices" * Police Violence Against Labor Reflects a new Quality/ Anthony D. Prince * Worcester Hosts National Teleconference/ Alice E. Kidder * April Conference in New England * Reaching Out to Roswell/ Lynne Wilson * Police Associations Attempt to Limit Police Accountability * Editor's Notes: Evening the Odds/ Nancy Rhodes * Asset Forfeitures: The Police, Money and Our Neighborhoods/ Nancy Rhodes.
PBC #2: February 1995
National Police Accountability Week (March 1-8)/ Andi Meck * RESIST Awards Us $1,000 Start-Up Money * The Public's Right of Access to Police Misconduct Files/ Lynne Wilson * Call for 1995 & 1996 N-COPA Conference Sites/ Holsey Hickman * Update on Roswell, New Mexico/ Andi Meck * Innovative Rookie Training in New York City Precinct by Gay & Lesbian Anti-Violence Project/ Matt Foreman * From Just Us to Justice for All: A Perspective on Community Policing/ Ronald E. Hampton * Ronald E. Hampton: A Profile * Police Accountability as a Peace Issue/ Dan Handelman * Editor's Notes: Rodney King Anniversary & Syracuse's "Landmark Incident" * Report on El Paso/ Eileen Luna * California Felons Must be Badder: Out-of-Staters Not Disqualified from Police Work * Further Notes of Police Guild SLAPP Suits * Border Officials Increase Enforcement Personnel and Technology/ Maria Jimenez * Federal Police Abuse/ Gene Guerrero * High Speed Pursuits: The Other Deadly Force (Pt. 1)/ Nancy Rhodes * Reviews - Citizen Review of the Police, 1994: A National Survey, by Sam Walker & Betsy Wright; At Issue: Policing the Police, ed. Paul A. Winters.
PBC #3: April 1995
"Strong Arm Accountability and Mississippi Justice/ Andrea Gibbs * N-COPA on the Internet?* Andrea Gibbs: A Profile * We Have to Watch These Guys: State Level Legislative Efforts by Police Lobbies * "Elementary Peacemaking" -- A Brief for Police Accountability/ Hal Pepinsky * Avoiding the Top-Down Trap of Community Policing/ Jon Read * Vigilante Action: The Antonio Jackson Death/ Marc Auerbach & Don Whitman * Reviews - F.B.I. Secrets: An Agent's Expose, by M. Wesley Swearingen; And Justice for All: Understanding and Controlling Police Abuse of Force, ed. William A. Geller & Hans Toch; Forces of Deviance: Understanding the Dark Side of Policing, by Victor E. Kappeler, Richard D. Sluder & Geoffrey P. Alpert * Santa Fe Conference Videos Ready from Flying Focus * Police Solve Fewer Murders When Victims are Gay/ Terry Person * Preview: Washington Review Board Board's Fate? * High Speed Pursuits: The Other Deadly Force (Pt. 2)/ Nancy Rhodes * Upcoming Conferences * Editor's Notes: More than Meets the Eye in El Paso * Farmworkers & Police in Upstate New York/ James Schmidt & Lew Papenfuse * Dangerous Allies: Local Police, 187 & the INS/ Dan Kesselbrenner * Readers' Queries: Glock 9mm in Philadelphia; Advice Sought on Police Unions & Chiefs from Hartford.
PBC #4: June 1995
In the Nation's Capital: Down but Not Out/ Gabe Chikes * In Spokane: Stealth Rulings Incapacitate Review Board * In Dade County: Independence vs. "Budget Consolidation" * In Pennsylvania: Getting Us Both Ways * In Springfield: ARISE Tackles It All * Editor's Notes: NYPD Discovers the "Code of Silence" Exists * Chicago's Seward Academy: Defense of Student Honored/ Mary D. Powers * Review - Breaking and Entering: Women Cops Talk About Life in the Ultimate Men's Club, by Connie Fletcher * Reader's Query: Canine Units * Mike Masterson's "Dying in Custody" Series Moves Congress * Annual Conference Announced * Reviews - Live from Death Row, by Mumia Abu-Jamal, and Crossing the Line: Human Rights Abuses Along the U.S. Border with Mexico, by Human Rights Watch/ Americas * Human Rights Watch Seeks N-COPA's Assistance for New Project * Native Americans and Police Accountability/ Eileen Luna * Eileen Luna: A Profile * The Dallas Pastors & Police Project/ Holsey Hickman * Community Policing: A Kinder, Gentler Non-Solution?/ Andrea Prichett.
PBC #5: August 1995
Anatomy of a Police Misconduct Trial: "Jacking" Omari Salisbury/ Lynne Wilson * New Regular Feature: Coordinator's Corner/ Mary D. powers * Word from Santa Fe: Attacks on Don Grady * Harriett Walden: A Profile/ Lynne Wilson * ACLU's Pepper Spray Update * Auditing Police Brutality Toward Asian Americans/ Elizabeth R. OuYang * Land, Gambling and State Police: The Iroquois Context/ Doug George-Kanentiio * C.A.P. and Harvard: Signs of Thaw toward Oversight? * Making "em Pay vs. Making It Right: Do Lawsuits Deter Police Misconduct?/ John Crew * Don Jackson's 800 Number: The Police Complaint Center * Philadelphia Update: Efforts to Dismantle Oversight, Invasion of Black Church* Capital Update: Piper & Marbury Report Recommends New Oversight in D.C. * Editor's Notes: Splitting the Difference - Why Your Review Board Needs Its Own Lawyer * N-COPA Conference & NBPA Misconduct Tribunal Schedules, Registration * Research, Education & Organizing: Project South's Criminal Justice Working Group/ Abbie Illenberger, Jerome Scott & Walda Katz Fishman.
PBC #6: October 1995
U.S Commission on Civil Rights Briefing on Racism & Sexism in Policing * Coordinator's Corner: Carpe Diem! * No Room at the Inn: Atlanta '96 Olympics Accelerate Clash with Homeless * United Nations Human Rights Treaties and Police Abuse/ Lynne Wilson * Black Officers Take on the LAPD and Protective League: An Interview with Sgt. Leonard Ross * More than Mumia: Police and Capital Punishment/ Kica Matos * Taking the Fifth in Philadelphia: Court Orders Cops to Testify * Review - Race for Justice: Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fight Against the Death Penalty, by Leonard Weinglass * Report on IACOLE's Vancouver Conference * Pepper Spray: Briefing Paper Due from Omega Foundation * Editor's Notes: On the Simpson Verdict - "It's the Police, Stupid" * New Steering Committee Member: Rev. Kathy Lancaster * Risper Cop Must Pay Restitution/ Mary D. Powers * Atlanta's "Operation Dirty Three" * Review - White Lies, White Power: The Fight Against White Supremacy and Reactionary Violence, by Michael Novick.
PBC #7: First Anniversary Issue - December 10, 1995
International Human Rights Day
Washington Hearings: HR 1446 Held at Bay - for Now/ Mary D. Powers * Coordinator's Corner: Post-Conference Comments & Developments in Albuquerque, New York City & Chicago * October 26 National Tribunal on Police Misconduct: Summary Statement of Judges * NBPA's Capital Press Conference Unveils Police Brutality: A Strategy to Stop the Violence * Chicago Conference Resolutions & Actions * In San Francisco, Proposition G Passes * Taking It Back: Post-Conference Actions in Atlanta & Phoenix * N-COPA Resolution Texts Re: Use of Police Attack Dogs in the U.S. and Police Use of Pepper Spray * Another Pepper Spray Update * Holsey Hickman Named New Chair of NITFCJ * Index of PBC's First Year Issues * Labor's Stake in Police Accountability/ Lonnie Nelson * Editor's Notes: The Jonny Gammage Case & Human Rights * U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Testimony on the Aftermath of Waco/ James J. Fyfe * Policing and Accountability Among Native Peoples in the United States/ Eileen Luna * Food Not Bombs Calls Day of Protest for March 3 Rodney King Anniversary * Collecting Physical Evidence Following a Use of Force/ Teresa Guerrero-Daley * In Miami, Wes Pomeroy "Retires" * In New York City, Hector Soto Retires * Reviews - Citizen Review Resource Manual, by Sam Walker with Betsy Wright; Jon, Why Are You Crying? by David Key Parrish.
PBC #8:February 1996
We Need a National Journalists' Day Against Police Abuse/ Anthony D. Prince * Call for a National Conference of Journalists Against Police Abuse * Coordinator's Corner: El Paso Conference on Border Issues & Human Rights, Exploring a Joint Day with Journalists * 911 Call Leads to Victim's Death: Minor Discipline, Major Cover-up in Guillen Case/ Mary D. Powers * Call for 1996 N-COPA Conference Site Proposals * Misconduct Tribunal Videotapes Available from Flying Focus * Bulletin: Charges Declined in Guillen & Hernandez Cases * Guess Who's the Enemy?/ Peter Cassidy * Maria Jimenez Serves on Houston's Police Advisory Committee * How the INS Plans on Dragooning Local Cops * N-COPA's Internet Home Page Announced * List serves: Bob Witanek's "subscribe pol-abuse" * Review - "The Internet: What It Can & Can't Do for Activists," by Larry Lamar Yates * Editor's Notes: What We Didn't Have Space to Cover * Denver: Union Attacks Review Board * Atlanta: Justice for Jerry Jackson Committee Charges Cover-up * Mary Howell on Police Reform in New Orleans * Pittsburgh Conference: Remembering Jonny Gammage * Pepper Spray: Wide-eyed Innocence Award for the Month * Review - "Town Without Pity," by John Conroy * Lynne Wilson & NLG's Monitoring Project of South Africa's Truth Commission * Review - Edge of the Knife: Police Violence in the Americas, by Paul Chevigny * March 3rd Day of Protest Gathers Momentum.
PBC #9:April 1996
". . . More Bad Movies" [Cover Treatment of the Riverside Beatings] * Review - Black Police in America, by W. Marvin Dulaney * Don Grady Walks: Santa Fe Police Chief Forced to Resign * Coordinator's Corner: On Church Hearings and NPR Attention to Police Accountability/ Mary D. Powers * Watching the Watchdogs: A Look at the INS Citizens' Advisory Panel (CAP)/ Suzan Kern * La Marcha Sin Fronteras (March With No Borders) * The Aftermath of Jerrold Hall's Death: BART and the Hidden Problems of Metro Consolidation/ Cornelius Hall * Garden Grove's Asian Mug File Settlement/ Daniel C. Tsang * Tribunal Update: Justice Delayed/ Mary D. Powers * N-COPA Conference Site Update: Not Too Late to Host '96 Conference * Cap-Stun Kickbacks: FBI's Top Expert Convicted of Felony, Took Money for Approving Pepper Spray/ Nancy Rhodes * Now There's an Idea: New Commission on Federal Law Enforcement Oversight Added to "Counterterrorism" Bill * San Francisco Police Arrest March 3rd Demonstration: Small Claims Court as a New Avenue for Police Complaints/ Andrea Prichett * In Good Company: Crossroads' Don Sable Activism Award in Chicago & Center for Law & Justice's Frederick Douglass Award in Albany * What's Going on in Pennsylvania? Activists Turn Up the Heat in Pittsburgh & Philadelphia * Editor's Notes - Lucinda Batts & Mark Virginia: Two Deaths in Custody/ Nancy Rhodes * Justice Reports on the Internet Now * New Responses from the Religious Community: San Bernardino Bishop Condemns the Riverside Beatings; National Council of Churches' Racial Justice Working Group Signs on Against "National Scourge"
PBC #10 - June 1996
"Intermediate" Force: After Pepper Spray, "Flash-bangs"/ Nancy Rhodes * Coordinator's Corner: N-COPA's October Conference Set for Chicago, Again the Site of August's Democratic Convention/ Mary D. Powers * '95 N-COPA Conference Videos Available from Portland's Flying Focus Video Collective * Patty Mullen & Eric Smith: On Death & Difference (In the Neighborhood: Large Woman's Death Mocked by Police and Unarmed Deaf Man Shot)/ Mary D. Powers * Review - The Symptoms Report: The Relation of Medical Symptoms to Domestic Violence, by C.J. Betancourt, MD and William D. Grant, MD * The Timothy Walker Case: Hate Crimes & the Need for Accountability in Utica, New York/ Stephen L. Lockwood * Indianapolis, Past & Present: Michael Taylor's Mother Wins her Suit, Church Action for Safe & Just Communities Holds Conference/ Mary D. Powers * Meanwhile, Deaths in Custody Coincide with Beginning & End of Buffalo's speak-out Series: Was One a "Knee-drop"? * The Struggle Against Police Brutality in Pittsburgh: Gammage Case Sparks Range of Activism/ Peter Shell * Query re: New N-COPA Directory * Coordinadora '96 Meets with Department of Justice after Riverside Beatings * Review - Migrant Deaths at the Texas-Mexico Border, 1985-91994: A Preliminary Study, by Stanley Bailey, Karl Escbach, Jacqueline Hagan & Nestor Rodriguez, sponsored by AFSC/ILEMP * Video Review - The Time Has Come! An Immigrant Community Stands Up to the Border Patrol, produced by El Paso Border Rights Coalition * Editor's Notes: PBC Moves; A Reminder for Member, Subscriber Support/ Nancy Rhodes * Consolidation Blues: Not Just Turf Battles & Price Wars/ Nancy Rhodes * Lessons from South Africa: Community Peace Foundation Helps Define a Very Different "Community Policing" Model/ Lynne Wilson
PBC #11 - August 1996
Cover Story: John Sanchez Freed: Monitoring Indian Trials in Northern California/ Louis Korn * N-COPA's Annual Conference Registration & Tentative Schedule * Coordinator's Corner/ Mary D. Powers * Chicago's Police Custody Hotline Thwarts Coerced Confessions, Provides Free 24-hour Legal Representation/ Petra Harris * The Killing of Gustavo Soto Mesa & San Jose's 27-Year Fight for Independent Oversight/ Cornelius Hall * Black Women Cops Fight Retaliation: Shreveport Suit * Editor's Notes: On Auditor Systems and Police Integrity/ Nancy Rhodes * Reviews: Amnesty International's Police Brutality and Excessive Force in the New York City Police Department; ACLU's Not Just Isolated Incidents: The Epidemic of Police Pursuits in Southern California; ACLU's Reform Delayed: Five Years After the Christopher Commission (LAPD in-take of citizen complaints); Human Rights Watch's Modern Capital of Human Rights? Abuses in the State of Georgia; National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty's No Homeless People Allowed; Conexion Latino/ WYBE TV35's Police Accountability: The Role of Special Commissions (video); LA Police Commission/ Merrick Bobb, Esq.'s In the Course of Change: The Los Angeles Police Department Five years After the Christopher Commission; Campus Coalition for Peace & Justice's "The Struggle Against Police Brutality in Pittsburgh, PA,"; In Pittsburgh Newsweekly's "Turn Down the Heat" (series, June-July 1996); NAACP/Trotter Institute's Beyond the Rodney King Story (1991/93) * Police and Prostitutes in San Francisco/ Carol Leigh (aka Scarlet Harlot) * Pepper Spray, Product Liability & Cops: Another Quarter Heard From/ Nancy Rhodes * Million Man March Anchors Grand Rapids Ballot Effort for Strongest Review Board in the U.S. * Brooklyn Rising: Elected Officials Hold Public Hearing, Lesbian & Gay Anti-Violence Project and the Sylvia Lugo Case, State Anti-Death Penalty Coalition Takes on Police Abuse * Eileen Luna Moves West to Tuscon
