[PW] Re: Stastics -- police brutality?

[Sue Kamm]

There are a couple of ways to do this.

1)  Contact the law enforcement officials in the city or cities to which you want to compare Portland, and ask for the statistics on police brutality incidents there.  

2)  Try the newspapers in the areas.  

3)  Check the state department of justice website(s) for the areas you're looking for.  

HTH!

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Shapiro <robin.shapiro at pcc.edu>
>Sent: Nov 6, 2006 4:15 PM
>To: list at project-wombat.org
>Subject: [PW]  Stastics -- police brutality?
>
>Fellow Marsupials,
>
>A student is searching for statistical information about police 
>brutality -- ideally, he'd like to compare cities.  We've looked at 
>Dept. of  Justice web sites, local "cop-watch" organizations, aclu.org, 
>basic databases like CQ Researcher and Opposing Viewpoints, and we're 
>not sure where to look next.
>
>Student would be very happy to find incidents per capita per year, or 
>brutality complaints vs. number of arrests -- he just wants to be able 
>to compare Portland, OR (for which he can get figures) to other cities, 
>of similar size if possible. 
>
>Thanks in advance for anything you can find....
>
>Robin
>
>-- 
>Robin Shapiro
>Reference Librarian
>Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus
>robin.shapiro at pcc.edu
>503-614-7126
>
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