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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 »

Meanwhile, a New England Center for Investigative Reporting analysis found that the racial breakdown of those arrested for disorderly conduct mirrored the racial composition of Cambridge, The Boston Globe reported today. The CPD also released the summary of an analysis it conducted with regard to disorderly conduct arrests, which said that black and white offenders faced similar arrest rates regardless of the arresting officer’s race...

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

Gates’ colleagues at Harvard sharply chided the actions of Crowley, citing racial profiling in Gates’ arrest. Evelyn B. Higginbotham, chair of the Department of African and African American Studies, wrote in an open letter that “to be black in America brings painful situations such as what you are now experiencing.” Mass. Governor Deval L. Patrick ’78 called the arrest “troubling...

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

...July 21, charges were dropped against Gates, but a day later, the incident reached its pinnacle of media attention when President Barack Obama said the Cambridge Police Department “acted stupidly,” adding that racial profiling remained a fact of life for minorities in America. He later distanced himself from his comments, saying that he blundered in his “choice of words,” and invited Crowley and Gates to the White House for conversation and beer...

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

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