Word: gellhorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This local-level "Mr. Fixit," as Gellhorn calls him, would have some serious immediate problems to deal with...
...Gellhorn told a Law School audience night that civilian review boards for police departments create too much animosity between the police and the public...
...last of three Oliver Wendell Homes Lectures, Gellhorn, a professor of Law at Columbia, said that the only major review boards now in existence -- in Philadelphia and in Rochester, N.Y.--have been totally ineffectual. They can censure or fire police officers, he said, but they are unable to get at the root of Law enforcement problems...
...problem of police brutally and discourtesy is not nearly as acute as it was 30 years ago, Gellhorn said. "Today, the New York and Washington police forces are models of decorum...
...Gellhorn proposed that a single local official replace the civilian review board. He could handle grievances against the police department and also against public housing, welfare, school and other municipal authorities...