Read: "Killer Cops," "Flash. Bang. Your're Dead," "War in the Streets," "Occupied
America," and "Corruption the Criminal Justice System" in your course reading packet. Questions come from the articles in the order in which the articles are listed.1.Since 1990, how many people have Prince
George's police force shot? How many have been killed? How many were unarmed?
2. A study by the Washington post revealed that at least how many people died while in the custody of the Prince George County police?
3. Has even a single officer been disciplined as a result of the in- custody death of arrestees?
4. How many SWAT teams are in the U.S. today and how much of an increase has there been in SWAT teams since 1980
according to a Peter Kraska, an EKU criminal justice scholar?
5. How many times was Pedro Navarro shot in the back by police during a 1998 raid on his home in which no drugs were found?
6. What discrepancies
existed between the home described in a search warrant and the Harrison's home that was raided?
7. Who killed officer James Jensen during a drug bust of an empty house?
8. What did a congressional investigation conclude about the ATF's action at Waco?
9. What did SWAT team members devote their time to in the immediate hours following the attack on Colombine by Eric Harris and Dylan
Klebold?
10. According to police department figures, how many people did New York cops kill between 1992 and 1996? How many died while in police custody?
11. Even when police are found guilty of wrongfully beating
or killing someone, what is "about the worst punishment" they usually get?
12. Why couldn't Junito Roman point a gun at an officer as was claimed by the officer who shot him?
13. When was commander Jon
Burge finally fired and how many people did an internal investigation conclude Burge had overseen the systematic torture of?
14. How does Arnetta Grable describe the situation facing the citizens of America?
15. According to the author of "Occupied America," what is the real reason Cincinatti exploded last year?
16. How much more likely is it the black drug offenders will do hard time than whites in Ohio?
17. How many
people were banned from the Over-the Rhine neighborhood as a result of a South-Africa style law that was recently ruled unconstitutional?
18. How many times did one 32-year old Navy veteran report that he had been
stopped and handcuffed by police?
19. How much time did one homeless man spend in jail for the "crime" of going back into the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood to obtain food and shelter?
20. How many news outlets
covering the riots mentioned the (utlimately unconstitutional) pass law that banned citizens from their own community?
21. Why has the war on drugs tilted the market to more potent substances according to the author?
22. According to United Nations estimates, coca production in Colombia has increased by how much since 1990.
23. International trade in cocaine is now thought to total how much per year?
24. How does the drug war
stratify drug use? Specifically, why does the author say that middle-class users are less likely to be arrested?
25. According to the author, the war on drugs rapidly degenerates into a war on whom?
26. What
conclusion have virtually all the major investigations of police departments in the past 100 or so years reached?
27. According to the Knapp Commission, officers who worked in which two fields raked in the largest
profits from corruption?
28. When the Pennsylvania Crime Commission investigated police corruption, what was it told about the percentage of narcotics arrests in which a portion of the drugs were not turned in?
29.
When the Pennsylvania Crime Commission investigated police corruption, what was it told about what happened to the seized drugs that were not turned in?
30. True or False? When the Pennsylvania Crime Commission
investigated police corruption the report indicated that some female addicts and prostitutes were forced to have sex with officers to avoid arrest.
31. In 1994, the Mollen Commission found that a "willful blindness"
to corruption in the New York Police Department permitted networks of highly organized rogue officers to do what?
32. What did Rafael Perez charge with regard to how the officers in the CRASH unit were acting?
33. How many crinal convictions were overturned in the wake of the CRASH unit scandal?
34. In Los Angeles, as in New York and Philadelphia, what was the police department's initial response to the charges leveled
against them?
35. How many Dade Country judges were indicted on felony charges as a result of a Federal investigation and sting operation involving a fictitious drug ring?
