Next on American History tv, the discussion on policymaking commissions inl American History. This talk from Purdue University was part of the conference called making American History. I am the associate professor of instructions, a legal historian who has written about president ial commissions and Administrative Law from law reform. We look forward to you can tell, todays session is being filmed by cspan, so do with that information as you will. Frank will be first. Yes, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning. Increasingly i take an historical approach to city planning. I do that with rutgers. The reason i am here, nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th entry fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city, on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them, and a they dug my ago, 49 yearold book they dug my 49yearold book. They asked if i would participate. President ial commissions have a long history in the United Sta
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Disciplinary action. Ctvs brooks jarocz takes a look at the backlog in oakland. This hallway and nearby offices are quiet, but boxes are filling them up as civilian investigators try to tackle a big backlog of cases, all of them alleging police misconduct. But its an important aspect of Police Oversight that we can say to the community, well, the police dont always need to police themselves, and we can have experts who are trained to do exactly that. Mack muir is executive director of the Community Police review agency, a job hes held for less than 30 days. His team reports to the Oakland Police commission. And late last week, he delivered some bad news about that backlog of 211 cases of possible police misconduct, 135 havent even been touched. 64 other cases have no investigators assigned. And the average time to close a case, 363 days and rising. Its challenging. I think oakland has a major spotlight on it because this is the most powerful Police Commission in the united states. It h