NACOLE Trained Practitioner Recommended Reading list

Please select any two from the list to complete the reading requirement of the certificate program.

Scholarly Books and Publications

Bayley, David H. What Works in Policing. Oxford. (1998)
Bobb, Merrick. “Civilian Oversight of the Police in the United States,” Saint Louis University Public Law Review, Volume 22, Number 1. (2003)
Bobb, Merrick. “Internal and External Oversight in the U.S.,” PARC issues paper, October 2005. Buren, Brenda, Evaluating Citizen Oversight of Police, LFB Scholarly Publishing (2007)
Finn, Peter. “Citizen Review of Police: Approaches and Implementation,” National Institute of Justice, March 2001.
Gottschalk, Petter, Policing the Police: Knowledge Management in Law Enforcement, Nova Science Publishers (2009)
Harris, David A. Profiles in Injustice: Why Police Profiling Cannot Work. New Press (2002)
The Harvard Kennedy School's report on policing in Los Angeles;
International Association of Chiefs of Police, “Protecting Civil Rights: A Leadership Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement. September 2006.
Jones, Gareth, Conducting Administrative, Oversight & Ombudsman Investigations. Perfectbound (2009)
Livingston, Debra. “The Unfulfilled Promise of Citizen Review.” Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law. Volume 1, No. 2: 653-669. (2004)
Noble, Jeff and Alpert, Geoffrey, Managing Accountability Systems for Police Conduct: Internal Affairs and External Oversights (2008)
Perez, Douglas W. Common Sense about Police Review. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. (1994)
Prenzler, Tim, Preventing Misconduct and Maintaining Integrity: Advances in Police Theory and Practice (2009)
Perino, Justina, Citizen Oversight of Law Enforcement, ABA (2007). Reiss, Albert J. Jr. The Police and the Public. Yale (1972)
Skogan, Wesley and Hartnett, Susan, Community Policing: Chicago Style. Oxford (1999)
Vera Institute of Justice, “Building Public Confidence in Police through Civilian Oversight, September 2002.
Walker, Samuel. Police Accountability: The Role of Citizen Oversight. Belmont: Wadsworth Professionalism in Policing Series (2001)
Walker, Samuel The New World of Police Accountability. Sage Publications: Thousand Oaks. (2005)
Wilson, James Q. Varieties of Police Behavior. Athenaeum. (1968)

U.S. Constitutional Law

Sue Davis. 2008. Corwin and Peltason's Understanding the Constitution. 17th ed. Belmont, CA: Thomson. John C. Domino. 2010. Civil Rights and Liberties in the 21st Century. New York: Longman.

Biographical Books

Domanick, Joe. 2003. To Protect and to Serve: The LAPD's Century of War in the City of Dreams. Figueroa Press.

Special Independent Commissions/Blue Ribbon Reports

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Who is Guarding the Guardians? A Report on Police Practices. 1981
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. “Revisiting ‘Who is Guarding the Guardians?” November 2000.
National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (Kerner Commission). 1968.
Report of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department (Christopher Commission). 1991.
Five Years Later: A Report to the Los Angeles Police Commission on the Los Angeles Police Departments Implementation of Independent Commission Recommendations. 1996.
Los Angeles County Sheriffs Department: Report by Special Counsel James G. Kolts and Staff. 1992.
The City of New York, Commission to Investigate Allegations of Police Corruption and the Anti-Corruption Procedures of the Police Department (Mollen Commission). 1994.
Rampart Independent Review Panel. 2000. Rampart Reconsidered - The Search for Real Reform Seven Years Later.
Police Assessment Resource Center, “Review of National Police Oversight Models for the Eugene Police Commission,” February 2005.

Annual Reports by Existing Oversight Entities (read one report from at least two different types of agencies)

Berkeley Police Review Commission
Boise Ombudsman
Chicago Independent Police Review Authority
Denver Office of the Independent Monitor
Eugene Police Auditor
Los Angeles Police Department Inspector General
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department
Office of Independent Review
Special Counsel Merrick Bobb (semi-annual)
Minneapolis Civilian Review Authority
New York Citizen Complaint Review Board
Oakland Citizens’ Police Review Board
Orange County Office of Independent Review
Portland Independent Police Review
San Diego County Citizens Law Enforcement Review Board
San Francisco Office of Citizen Complaints
San Jose Office of the Independent Police Monitor
Seattle Office of Professional Accountability
Washington D.C. Office of Citizen Complaints