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The Los Angeles Riots: Independent and Webster Commissions Collections

3. PART: A Background Research Report

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2. 2. Malcolm X Grassroots Movement's Christopher Commission presentation Documents obtained through Coalition Against Police Abuse. PART OF A SERIES: Included in the series are source materials that were collected and analyzed by Hufstedler, Kaus & Ettinger. The series consists of the following: notes, memoranda and reports from meetings held with religious leaders and community organizations; an informational packet describing the city of Los Angeles' employee Wellness Program, which was launched in 1985; a photocopy of the indictment of Lawrence Powell, Timothy Wind, Theodore Briseno, and Stacey Koon, the four LAPD officers involved in the Rodney King incident; essays and reports about police violence and civil disorder; and a packet of materials related to the San Pedro/Wilmington Skills Center, an occupational outreach organization in South Los Angeles. Relevant information from these materials was synthesized into a background chapter of the Commission report by the firm.
3. 3. PART: A Background Research Report
4. 4. NAACP policy recommendations police-citizen violence resolution, [1991]
5. 5. Public hearing, First AME Church, April 1991 Public hearings, 1991 April 25-27. PART OF A SERIES: Materials in the series fall into one of several categories related to the Independent Commission's work product: (1) Commission meeting materials, which include meeting agendas, work plans, memoranda, and articles about police misconduct that were circulated and reviewed during the Commission's internal meetings; (2) public correspondence, which includes citizen complaints against the LAPD in the form of written testimony, articles, and an audio cassette tape, as well as letters drafted by citizens in support of the LAPD; (3) summaries of interviews held with LAPD officers regarding Departmental procedures and relations; (4) public meeting materials, which include transcripts, supplementary documents, and witness statements that were reviewed at the Commission's public meetings; (5) press releases related to the formation and work product of the Commission; and (6) miscellaneous materials reviewed by the Commission during its study, including LAPD personnel and training manuals, a memorandum of understanding, and messages from the LAPD's Mobile Digital Terminal (MDT) system.