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...Cambridge Police Department continues to await an independent committee report intended to offer "lessons learned" for the city in the aftermath of the controversial arrest of Professor Henry Louis "Skip" Gates, Jr. and subsequent allegations of racial bias...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Police Await Committee Report on Skip Gates Arrest | 6/17/2010 | See Source »

Formed last September, the Cambridge Review Committee was tasked with preparing a set of recommendations that would address the issues that arose from Gates' July 16 arrest, which had sparked accusations against the CPD of racial bias...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Police Await Committee Report on Skip Gates Arrest | 6/17/2010 | See Source »

...progress report made no explicit mention of addressing racial bias, an accusation lobbed at the CPD in the aftermath of Gates' arrest. Kosko said that addressing racial prejudice was not “one of the issues the committee was charged with” but added that it was a "byproduct of the response to the incident...

Author: By Naveen N. Srivatsa, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Cambridge Police Await Committee Report on Skip Gates Arrest | 6/17/2010 | See Source »

Excerpt: “Finally, it has been demonstrated that the change to television has had profound and lasting effects on the nature of Presidential leadership [...] and that the inherent bias of the new medium toward the President has caused a change in the public perception of the national government system, and that given time the change in perception could possibly work towards a change in the reality. A key factor in this trend is the increasing importance of the President’s personality. Because of this, it is possible to speculate that a ‘role requirement?...

Author: By George T. Fournier and James K. Mcauley, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Famous People and Their Theses | 6/3/2010 | See Source »

Admittedly, the role of judges is not to change the law but to interpret it. Yet every judicial opinion, if it is to be impartial, must empathetically consider the position of both sides of the case. Far from a source of bias, broad sympathies are the best protection against it. Without our ability to see the world from the perspectives of countless others and share their feelings when appropriate, impartial judgment would be impossible...

Author: By Michael L. Frazer | Title: Empathy, Obama, and Adam Smith | 5/26/2010 | See Source »

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