[Cprb] Fwd: Re: Police Review Board - Public I

[Ken Urban]

Well, do we have any takers?

Ken

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Ken Urban
Assoc. Prof., Computer Science
Parkland College

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>>> Linda Evans <veganlinda at yahoo.com> 1/12/2004 3:27:35 PM >>>
John and/or Ken,

We are approaching deadlines for this month's edition
of the Public I.  Do you think you could put something
rough together by Jan 15th?  The final/edited version
would be due the last week in Jan.  Would this be
doable? 

Thanks!!!

Linda
--- "J. Wason" <jwason at prairienet.org> wrote:
> At 02:35 AM 12/05/03 -0800, Linda Evans wrote:
> 
> >John/Ken,
> >
> >I thought I would start with you two.  The Public I
> is
> >planning a crime and punishment/race issue for
> >February.  We thought a piece on the police review
> >board would be great for this edition.
> >
> >Are either of you interested in writing something? 
> If
> >not, is there someone else you can suggest?  I know
> it
> >is a little while away, but this time of year time
> >flies past and I'm trying to be more proactive.
> >
> >Just let me know your thoughts.  Thanks!
> >
> >Linda Evans
> >355-5462
> 
> Proactivity is a wonderful thing, Linda.  *smile*
> 
> Our efforts in the CPRB Coalition are an ongoing and
> evolving thing, and an
> article about citizen police review boards can be
> approached from a variety
> of perspectives.  I would just like you both to know
> at this juncture that
> Jeff Nicholson-Owens did quite a bit of work on an
> article back when you
> were talking about a "Crime and Punishment" issue of
> the public i in the
> fall.  Jeff has since left our little coalition, and
> bequeathed me his
> draft article and some of his research.  
> 
> Jeff did quite a bit of research on the Gregory
> Brown incident, which was
> one of the precipitating factors in our starting the
> CPRB Coalition.  He
> also, I think, looked into the Lori Serb incident to
> some extent.
> 
> I've always had trouble getting a handle on this
> issue in terms of writing
> an article about it, in large part because sources
> are elusive and hard to
> track down and hard to get to talk about police
> abuse for publication.  As
> a journalist, I don't particularly want to talk
> about the issue in a dry
> academic fashion.  I want to talk about real
> incidents involving real
> people in our own community.
> 
> I would propose, I guess, to finish Jeff's article
> about Gregory Brown, as
> an example of an incident where a CPRB might prove
> useful, and then mention
> at the end that we have a coalition of citizens in
> C-U that is trying to
> get CPRB's established in the community.  As a
> companion piece, I would
> suggest that Lori Serb write about her own
> experience with the police.
> 
> Those are my proactive thoughts at the moment.
> 
> John


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