[PW] Re: Stastics -- police brutality?

[Ernest Avery]

Hi Robin,
You may have already found this site; unfortunately, it's dated
1998--may be too outdated for your patron.

http://www.hrw.org/reports98/police/toc.htm 

Ernest

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Ernest L Avery
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>>> Robin Shapiro <robin.shapiro at pcc.edu> 11/6/2006 7:15 PM >>>
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

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Robin Shapiro
Reference Librarian
Portland Community College, Rock Creek Campus
robin.shapiro at pcc.edu 
503-614-7126

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