Scope and Content From the Series: Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts investigated the attitudes held by members of Los Angeles' African-American community toward the police, an issue that garnered national attention after the Rodney King incident. The series contains summaries of two interviews conducted with prominent figures within Los Angeles' African-American community, focusing primarily on police brutality in South Los Angeles and the fear that it instills among community members. Also included is a report...

Scope and Content From the Series: To ascertain misconduct on the part of LAPD officers, the Independent Commission set out to probe databases maintained by the LAPD related to four areas: personnel complaints, use of force, officer-involved shootings (OIS), and the use of dogs (K-9). This task was delegated to the firm Freeman & Mills, which was responsible for obtaining these databases from the LAPD, converting pertinent data into useable formats, creating additional databases of additional information, and analyzing...