[CPRB] Candidate Responses to Police Review Board Survey

[jwalling at uiuc.edu]

I just submitted this to the IMC site.  Check out the survey 
answers!

Also, I changed the meeting time to Monday at 7.  I hope you 
all can make it! 


The Coalition for Citizen Police Review Boards has been hard 
at work during the Urbana primary elections, educating 
council candidates and the public about Citizen Police Review 
Boards. The Coalition for CPRBs worked hard to make this 
issue a campaign issue and were successful. The issue of 
CPRB's was brought up as one of the main questions at the 
Police and Firefighters Union forum and was one of the five 
key issues the News Gazette questioned the mayoral candidates 
about.

As part of the campaign for a CPRB and better community-
police relations in Urbana, the Coalition conducted a survey 
by mail sent to all candidates to determine how much each 
candidate knew about CPRB's and how committed each was to its 
creation in Urbana. The responses are currently available at 
www.prairienet.org/cprb. 

The results indicate that most candidates would be willing to 
look into the creation of a CPRB and several absolutely 
support a CPRB.

After the primary elections, the Coalition for CPRB's will 
still be actively working with the council candidates for a 
more just system for police complaints in the city of Urbana.

The next meeting of the Coaltion for Citizen Police Review 
Boards will be at 7 PM on Monday Feb. 28 in the Bondurant 
Room of the IDF on the corner of Springfield and Wright.