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Toy Must Go!
Condemns Detroit Police Department and its Commissioner, Harry S. Toy, for anti-Negro and anti-union violence.
Your House on Alger Street...the Gordy Case
Describes Gordy case and its background, and similar episodes of the past.
The Kercheval-Pennsylvania Incident, August, 1966
Analyzes interviews secured from area residents to trace causes of events in week of August 9, 1966.
Kids and Cops; a Study in Mutual Hostility
Reports "findings of an extensive study of how young people feel about the police and how police feel about young people, particularly youth in the inner cities" of Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Muskegon Heights.
The Development of the Detroit Police Department in the Nineteenth Century
Includes descriptions of Blackburn and Faulkner Riots, with citations from newspapers and contemporary documents.
City in Crisis: the People and Their Riot, a Social Psychological Study of the Detroit Uprising and Its Aftermath
"Survey study of the characteristics and attitudes of arrestees, the non-participants, black and white community and the police..." in the 1967 Riot.
Detroit Police Department - Community Relations: 1957 Report
Summarizes Committee's actions and recommendations since creation in 1953.
The Big Blue Line: Police Power vs. Human Rights
The Cynthia Scott Case. Recounts the death of Cynthia Scott, and exoneration of the policeman who shot her.
Active Community Team, Active Community Intervention by an Active Community-Team of Combined Disciplines...Prepared Under the Sponsorship of City of Detroit
Describes project, later funded, "for reduction and control of delinquency and youth crime" in Detroit's Tenth Police Precinct, through combining mental health, social work, education and law with community respresentation.