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NYPD Report on Tompkins Square Park Incident


Appendix - Maps of position of demonstrators, police and CCRB complaints

Document details

Description

Report written by Robert J. Johnston, Jr., Chief of Department to Benjamin Ward, Police Commissioner on the police response to the Tompkins Square Riots, August 6-7, 1988. Report is 16pp letter sized paper, best copy available has highlighting. Appendix is 4pp legal sized paper in color.

An article on this report appeared in Law Enforcement News, Vol. XIV, no. 275 (August 25, 1988)

In collection

Law Enforcement News Archives;NYPD Collection

Associated with

New York (N.Y.). Police Department (contributor)

Date

August 23 1988 (created)

Subjects

Tompkins Square Riot, New York, N.Y., 1988
Riot control -- New York (State) -- New York
Ward, Benjamin, 1926-2002
New York (N.Y.). Police Department

Object identifier

Tompkins Square Riot Report

External links

"Yes a Police Riot." New York Times, August 26, 1988.
Guide to the Squatter's Collective Oral Histories Project, Tamiment Library, NYU

Source

Law Enforcement News Archives, Special Collections, Lloyd Sealy Library, John Jay College of Criminal Justice/CUNY

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