This report reviews and describes issues relating to the police response to the Dade County, Florida, disorders of May 1980. Recent changes in the social environment and several incidents leading up to the disorders are described. The preparation, planning, mobilization, and tactical response of the Dade County Department of Public Safety and the…

This project was undertaken with the objective of offering the police departments involved an acceptable and feasible way to extend to their members an insight into the complexities and problems of the people with whom they must deal. Small group discussion was utilized, and the seminars dealt with human dynamics, communication breakdowns, crime…

A study of the impact of community policing on calls for service, crime, and narcotics cases in four Houston (Texas) neighborhoods used time series analysis and examined lagged and dynamic effects. The analysis indicated that the community policing programs had no significant impact on neighborhood crime. (SLD)

A study examined public relations aspects of the police confrontation and bombing of the revolutionary Black group, MOVE, in Philadelphia, in which 11 persons were killed, 250 were left homeless, and 61 homes were destroyed. It explored if and how race affected the crisis and whether Black media and general media were treated differently. City…

The Hartford project, an experimental effort to reduce residential burglary, street robberies, and fear of those crimes in an urban residential neighborhood, is described. Its most distinctive feature is its integrative approach in which police, community organization, and physical design changes were used to increase the willingness and ability…

The social restrictions and the degeneration of the ideals, attitudes, and moral values of urban police are examined, reflecting the undesirable aspects of this occupation. (JB)

Participants were recruited from the Police Department and from residents of Syracuse, N. Y., for 20 weekly sessions of four five-week blocks; a steering committee of police personnel, residents, and a coordinator planned the training sessions to build human relations skills and responsibility on both sides. (AJ)

Seminars conducted for 90 officers were evaluated by personal observation of the seminars in progress and by a comparison of seminar participants and nonparticipants. The evaluation revealed that the initial strong impact of the seminars tended to dissipate rather quickly over time. Other major findings were that seminar participants tended to…

In February 1991 the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights began a long-term study of the factors contributing to increased racial and ethnic tensions in the United States. This document is a report on one aspect of this study, a hearing held to consider the factors underlying increased racial and ethnic tension in Chicago (Illinois). This hearing was…

The proceedings of a 1984 public hearing on finding solutions to race-related problems in South Central Los Angeles, California, are summarized in this report. The hearing focused on problems identified by the McCone Commission, which investigated the Watts Riots of 1965 and reported on what could be done to ameliorate the conditions that caused…

THE CITIES OF THE UNITED STATES ARE BEING FACED WITH URGENT PROBLEMS AND TENSIONS THAT WILL NOT BE SOLVED BY SIMPLE SOLUTIONS OR FORMULAS. THERE IS A GREAT NEED FOR DEDICATED LEADERS REPRESENTING ALL RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, CIVIC, BUSINESS, AND POLITICAL GROUPS TO REASON TOGETHER, TO COMMUNICATE, TO UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER, TO FORMULATE ACTION PLANS,…

Reviews the findings of Black community surveys carried out by the Urban League in several U.S. cities since 1976. Among the principal concerns of urban Blacks surveyed were inflation, unemployment, housing, crime, education, child care, health care, racial discrimination, and police-community relations. (GC)

Mike Davis's book presents a history and current sociology of Los Angeles from a socialist perspective, arguing that inequalities in the distribution of power and wealth underlie the area's serious, growing problems: ethnic fear and discrimination, social disinvestment and withdrawal by the "haves," and an epidemic of youth violence. (SV)

The Woodlawn Organization (TWO) is a community organization on the south side of Chicago which grew out of cooperative efforts of clergymen in the area, members of the Greater Woodlawn Pastor's Alliance, in 1959. TWO's approach to community problems, influenced by the thinking of Saul Alinsky, was directly to confront unfair business practices,…

Presented in summary fashion, this pilot research project, conducted under the auspices of the Miami, Florida Police Department, was an outgrowth of the dual problems of deteriorating police-citizen relationships and escalating societal violence during recent years. The lack of empirical data on police behavior led to the project, limited in scope…