Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities- Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination The Los Angeles Report

Examines the resurgence of racial & ethnic tensions within & between local law enforcement (LE) & the communities it serves. Two events in Los Angeles critically tested the already strained relationship between the city's minority communities & LE: testimony by Det. Mark Fuhrman of the L.A. Police Dept. (LAPD) in the murder trial of O.J. Simpson, in which his tape-recorded interviews described discriminatory, abusive & illegal acts that he & other LAPD officers committed; & (2) on April 1, 1996, two sheriff's deputies from Riverside County were captured on videotape beating 2 suspected undocumented immigrants when they failed to respond to the deputies' commands in English.Berry, Mary Frances is the author of 'Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities- Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination The Los Angeles Report' with ISBN 9780756722265 and ISBN 0756722268.