Adams, Charles, executive director of the Civilian Complaint Review Board, Americans for Democratic Action, Allen Roskoff, president, New York Chap- African Methodist Episcopal Conference, Rev. Larry Dixon... Amon-Ra, Michael, chairperson, Black United Front, New York Chapter. Anderson, Jimmy, Black United Front, cochair, Police Brutality Investigation 915 Black and White Men Together, James Credle......... Blackburne, Laura, national chapter, National Association for the Advance- 1212 Carb, Debra .. Caruso, Phil, president, New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association 1221 1197 Chapman, Frank, National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression 1289 Chavis, Ben (Reverend), United Church of Christ, Commission for Racial Conboy, Kenneth, legal counsel, New York Police Department... Clement, Marilyn, Center for Constitutional Rights, Families for Police Ac- Congress of Racial Equality: Roy Innes, chairman.. Cyril Barnes, board member. 1197 868, 1269 Concerned Minorities in Criminal Justice: Alton Maddox, Jr., attorney. 1239 Michael Warren, attorney 1236 Clayton Jones, attorney. 1234 Cooper, Maudine, vice president for Washington operations, National Urban 125 Cousar, John, past president of the NYPD Guardians and special assistant for 1194 339 Daughtry, Herbert (Reverend), chairperson, National Black United Front, 495, 1211 487 Early, Jerome 796 Early, Lorna. 794 Emery, Richard, staff attorney, New York Civil Liberties Union. 613 Fauntroy, Raymond, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Miami, FL. 387 402 Fyfe, James J., professor, the American University. 1123 Gary, Howard, city manager, Miami, FL. 345 Gassaway, Vernon, Grand Council of Guardians 797 Gibson, Čorey. 532 Goode, Victor, instructor of law, City University of New York Law School, 1270 Grand Council of Guardians: Jacques Maurice, chairman. 799, 1141 John Cousar, past president of the NYPD Guardians and special assistant 800, 1145 William Johnson, Jr., former president. 799 Richard Woodbury 799 Vernon Gassaway.. 799 Harring, Sidney, associate professor of law, City University of New York Law School, Queens College.. 1253 Heyward, Lamont 656 Hofstra Law School, Douglas Colbert, professor. 868, 1269 Hsu, Hwa Min, China 844 Innis, Roy, chairman, Congress of Racial Equality 1201 Johnson, Lee (Reverend).. 667 Johnson, William, Jr., former president, Grand Council of Guardians.. 799 Jones, Clayton (attorney)....... 791 Jones, Clayton, attorney, Concerned Minorities in Criminal Justice. 1234 920 Lau, Paul, China 863 Lieman, Marie 1211 Ling, Kwan Fee, China 844 Long, Lillian...... 660 Lucas, Lawrence (father), Resurrection Roman Catholic Church of Harlem.... 487 Luna-Gordinier, Eileen, Berkeley Police Review Commission. 3 Maddox, Alton H., Jr., attorney. 495, 1239 Maddox, Alton, attorney, Black United Front Mason, C. Vernon, attorney, New York City. 495 633, 1250 Maurice, Jaques, chairman, Grand Council of Guardians. 799 McGuire, Robert, police commissioner, city of New York. 936, 1074 Mendez, Garry A., Jr. (Ph.D.), National Urban League, New York City. 125 345 Mitchell, Roderick...... 664 Mitchell, Timothy (Reverend), National Council of Churches. 487 Muamba, Cornelia, national chapter, National Association for the Advance- 477 Murdaugh, Darnel, national chapter, National Association for the Advance- 479 Murphy, Patrick, president, Police Foundation, Washington, DC 321 National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, Frank Chapman 1289 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, national chapter: Laura Blackburne. Page 472, 1248 Michelle Russ... 474 Alton Maddox, attorney. Rose Mary Sterrett Darnel Murdaugh. National Black United Front: Rev. Herbert Daughtry, chairperson. Dave Walker, chief investigator, New York chapter Michael Amon-Ra, chairperson, New York chapter. Jimmy Anderson, cochair, Police Brutality Investigation Unit. 476 477 479 495, 1211 532 495 495 495, 1214 Charles Barrow, chief of staff, African Peoples Christian Organization... Dr. Garry A. Mendez, Jr., New York City....... Jerome Page, executive director of the Chattanooga Area Urban League... William Bracey, former chief of uniformed forces, police department.. 1075 920 Charles Adams, executive director of the Civilian Complaint Review New York City Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, Phil Caruso, president O'Donnell, Lawrence, Jr., author, "Deadly Force: The True Story of How a Organization of Afro-American Clergy, Rev. Calvin O. Butts.... Page, Jerome, executive director of the Chattanooga Area Urban League. Police Foundation, Washington, DC, Patrick Murphy, president 321 457 487 915 Russ, Michelle, national chapter, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.......... 474 Schwartz, Fritz, corporation counsel, New York City. 920 Shriver, Donald W., president, Union Theological Seminary, New York City.... September and Associates, East, Inc., Flint, MI, Raymond Frank, vice president and director of training 445 402 Shabazz, Roy 534 Soto, Hector, attorney, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund.. 457 387 476 Stierheim, Merrett, county manager, Dade County, FL (prepared statement only). 339 Tam, Wei, China 844 Union Theological Seminary, New York City, Donald W. Shriver, president..... Vann, Albert, New York State assemblyman Walker, Dave, chief investigator, Black United Front, New York chapter........... Wells, Katherine. Woodbury, Richard, former police officer, New York City. Woods, Herbert Kenneth.. Wright, Ernest..... Page 481 532 1236 654 1195 657 537 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL "Administrative Review of Racially Motivated Police Violence." Survey, Kir- 1529 1582 "Deadly Force: The Debate Over Police Violence," Wayne Barrett for the "Village Voice". 433 "Model Legislation for a Police Control Council," National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression..... "National People's Hearing into Police Crimes in the United States," sponsored by the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, National Conference of Black Lawyers, and the National Black American Law Students Association.. "Police Brutality: The Real Crime," Police Brutality Investigation Unit, National Black United Front...... 1305 1548 1219 "Police Crimes in the United States," Lennox S. Hinds, permanent representative to the United Nations, International Association of Democratic Lawyers.... 1318 "Police Use of Deadly Force," preliminary report, National Minority Advisory Council on Criminal Justice.... 1451 "Police Use of Deadly Force: Data and Literature Review," draft of a study by the National Urban League.. 143 "Racially Motivated Violence in America," United Church of Christ, Commission for Racial Justice. 870 "Report on Cases Submitted During Congressional Hearings on Alleged Police Brutality," New York City Police Department, October 1983... 978 "Report on Cases Submitted During Congressional Hearings on Alleged Police Brutality Held November 28, 1983," New York City Police Department, March 1984. 1632 POLICE MISCONDUCT THURSDAY, JUNE 16, 1983 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, Washington, D.C. The subcommittee met at 10 a.m., in room 2226, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. John Conyers (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Conyers and Gekas. Staff present: Thomas W. Hutchison, counsel; Raymond V. Smietanka, minority associate counsel; Gail Bowman, assistant counsel. Mr. CONYERS. The subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. Today the Subcommittee on Criminal Justice receives testimony on a subject that has come before us many times, police use of deadly force. Statistics demonstrate that blacks and Hispanics are disproportionately the victims of police shootings. While the last 10 years haven't seen 10 executions in this country through the court process, there have been 4,000 fatal shootings of civilians by police. More than half of those killed were members of minority groups. In New York during 1971 through 1975 blacks and Hispanics comprised 36 percent of the population but were 82 percent of those killed by the police. In Philadelphia from 1960 to 1970 blacks constituted 22 percent of the population, 37 percent of those arrested and 90 percent of those killed by police. Indiscriminate use of deadly force undermines real security and respect for the law and hampers police work. Unfortunately, many Americans do not perceive police misuse of deadly force as a serious problem. And so we have a very difficult time in courts and before juries, because juries have been extraordinarily reluctant to convict police. Recent events demonstrate that the problems associated with the police use of deadly force and police abuse have not diminished or been resolved. Just since the first of the year the following events have made their way into the news: In December 1982 in Miami, Fla., the shooting of Neville Johnson and Alonzo Singleton touched off several days of rioting in Overtown. In Miami, Fla., this year police have shot and killed five men during this period alone. In Richmond, Ĉalif., two families were each awarded $12 million after fatal shootings of two black men by the Richmond police. The plaintiffs contended, and apparently proved, that the shootings (1) |