NEWS RELEASE - CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF
UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT:
May 1, 2007 Angel Godinez
Luévano
State
Director, California LULAC
925
813-2547 (cell)
Jan
Tucker 310.618.9596 818.720.3719 (cell)
LULAC de California is denouncing all violence in the struggle for
Comprehensive Immigration Reform and is especially shocked and outraged that
violence erupted at the Mac Arthur Park Rally.
LULAC calls for a full and prompt investigation into the violence in Los
Angeles Mac Arthur Park. We must swiftly get all the facts, said Angel G.
Luévano LULAC State Director. We can not allow our community to further
suffer any violence.
Luevano also stated that it is a situation like this which underscores the
need for adoption of the Model Ordinance on Civil Oversight of Police
Misconduct which has been adopted by California LULAC as its policy for
reorganization of how internal affairs procedures are conducted. Our policy
does not call for reform: it calls for a complete revamping of how those
procedures are implemented once and for all.
Jan Tucker, Chief Civil Rights Investigator for California LULAC said that
the Model Ordinance on Civilian Oversight of Police Misconduct cuts two ways
in a situation like this: given the years of police inability to curb
misconduct by traditional methods and traditional reforms, a significant
portion of the public will believe at the end of the day that the police are
guilty of misconduct regardless of whether they are or not, because that
portion of the public simply lacks confidence in the ability of police
departments to investigate themselves. Tucker also noted that California
LULAC has called for repeal of Section 3307 of the California government code
in order to put all California police on a par with FBI agents and every other
government employee in California who can be required to take a polygraph
examination as an investigative tool to assist in resolving swearing contests.
The League of the United Latin American Citizens, the oldest and largest
Hispanic membership organization in the country, advances the economic
conditions, educational attainment, political influence, health, and civil
rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more
than 700 LULAC councils nationwide.
A copy of the Model Ordinance for Civilian Oversight of Police Misconduct
can be obtained from [EMAIL PROTECTED] or can be downloaded from
www.calulac.org.
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Jan B. Tucker
P.O. Box 433 Torrance CA 90508-0433
Tel: 310.618.9596
Fax: 310.618.1950
www.janbtucker.com
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