Commissioning Reform: Human Relations and Citizen Oversight

• In Event: Institutional Foundations of Inequality

Brief Overview

Compares the relative effectiveness of Human Relations Commissions versus Citizen Oversight/Complaint Commissions have in changing an abusive or unresponsive (whether perceived or real) police force into one that protects and serves all citizens.

Authors

• Valerie J Martinez- Ebers, University of North Texas

• Brian Robert Calfano, University of Cincinnati

• Diego Esparza, University of North Texas