CNN Article on Resolution on Civiletti: Deadly Force

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2) lo  ii|iur;nle llie i|iinlilv ol exislimj alleriinlive 
eikicalioii programs via airrieulnm ilevelopmeni, slalf 
Iraining, youlh and pareni parlieipation, and changed 
adminislralive policies.

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suspensions and expulsions in Ihe disiriets where Ihe 
programs operale.

Eligible applicants include public and private 
not-for-profit schools, agencies or organi/.alions in areas 
with high rates of delint|uency and school absenteeism.

Grants will range up to $250.000 for up lo three years.
Comments on the draft guidelines must be received by 

December 14. Following publication of the final 
guidelines, expecteil to occur next winter, it is anticipated 
that applicants will have 60-90 days lo develop 
iipplicalions. Awards are scheduled lo be marie next 
summer.

For further information, contact Monserrate Diaz, 
OJJDP, LFIAA. Washington, fX' 205.f I (202/724-7755).

POLICE______

CIVILEHI: DEADLY FORCE GUIDELINES NEEDED

Three new LEAA grants worth a total of $8 16,2.12 will 
underwrite studies ol tlie use of deadly force by law 
enforcement officers.

Attorney General Ifenjamin Civilefti has a])i)arenlly 
taken a personal interest in the grants, which were 
described as one of several recent Justice Department 
initiatives relating to tlie civil rights concerns olHis|)anics 
and blacks.

“ We hope this latest effort will lead to a program of 
national standards in the use of deadly force that police 
departments can draw upon to draft individual policies and 
training programs,” Cdviletti said.

Ffe added that, “4 he promulgation of such guitlelines 
can help save tlie lives ol police ulticers and community 
residents and can provide police officers with procedures in 
which there is a certainty that they are supported by 
departmental policy if they must use deaiily force.”

(irants Listed. I he 18 month grants were awarded to:
— University of ( alilornia, Irvine, $.161,()()() to 

examine organizational problems laced by police 
departments regarding use of deadly lorce and to trace tlie 
inlluences on administrative control of deadly force,

- National Urbati I eagiie. New York City, $299,955 
to study, Ironi the minority group commimity’s 
perspective, lactors that might contribute to the high 
number of minorities involved in police shootings. In 
conjunction with this grant the National Council of La 
Raza, an Hispanic group, will analyze the use of deadly 
force in several cotmnunities to be selected.

— International Association of C'hiefs of Police,
’, MD, $155,277 to survey the 53 largest

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depart meiits loi dat t could be rised to const met a model 
on the use ol deadi ce, with the model to be tested in 
lour departmeiits.

For further information, contact the Public 
I ilormation OITice, LEAA, Washington, DC 20531 
(202/724-7782).

NEW CRIME REPORTING SYSTEM INTRODUCED

A new Standardized Crime Reporting Systetn 
(SCRS), designed for police agencies with overbtirdetied 
crime reporting systems, is beitig introduced by SEARCH 
Group Inc.

SliARC'H is the LFAiA-funded organization that 
develops and disseminates information system soft ware.

Accoriliiig to SCRS project coordinator Jane Duncan, 
local agencies often outgrow their crime reportitig systetns 
as a result of higher crime rates,, increased populations, 
jurisdictional expansioti, or the desire for improved crime 
analysis, management and statistical information.

She said SCRS offers a systematic way of atialyzing an 
o[>cratitig system, iliscovering its ik-ficicncics and, through 
a series of implementation manuals, guiding the 
administrator into developing a more complete and 
accurate reportmg system.

Workshops have been scheduled for F'eb. 27-28 in 
New Orleans, March 5-6 in Denver, and March 12-13 in 
Haltimoro, to ititroducc police administrators, planners and 
records supervisors to SCRS.There is no fee for attending.

For itiformation on SCRS ami the workshops, contact 
Duncan at SEARCH Group Inc., 1620 35th Ave., 
Sacramento, CA 95822 (916/392-2550).

JUDICIAL PROCESS

FOREIGN JURISTS IMPEACH U.S. JUSTICE

A visiting panel of foreign jurists has indicted the 
American system of justice for allegedly “ gross” and 
“ widespread” violations of the rights of defendants and 
prisoners.

The eight foreign judges and lawyers were invited to 
the U.S. to review allegations made by the National 
Conference of Black Lawyers, the Natiotial Alliance 
Against Racist and Political Repression, and the 
( ommission on Raeial .liistiee United ( htirch of ( lirist.

I hesc three groups have recently petitioned the United 
Nations to investigate allegeii violations of the rights of 
minority defendants and inmates in the United .States . Fheir 
petitioti is |)eiuling.

Hardly an unbiased delegation, the “ international 
Jurist observers’ ’ were chosen by the petitioning groups for 
their sympathies with the minorities and poor. The 
petitioning groups arranged and paid for the Jurists to spend 
18 days in die U.S. last August speaking to allegedly 
abused prisoners and examining the records of their cases.

In a report on their findings the Jurists assert that a

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