The Flak Catchers: One Hundred Years of Riot Commission Politics in America
- ISBN-10
- 0549087508
- ISBN-13
- 9780549087502
- Category
- Governmental investigations
- Pages
- 692
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Author
- Lindsey Jill Harrison Lupo
Description
However, I find that the riot commissions of recent years do not operate in the same manner as riot commissions of years past. This study analyzes how riot commissions have in fact shifted in their prominence, content, and focus over the last century. Differing from previous scholars' assessments that riot commissions are all the same, I show that riot commissions shifted in their nature after the very prominent 1968 Kerner Commission that studied the 1967 summer riots. Failure by the riot commission to answer fundamental questions posed by the crisis is therefore an increasing occurrence.
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