"10 Cases Reviewed By PAB," Democrat & Chronicle, February 2, 1968
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Below is a scanned image of a newspaper clipping regarding 10 cases that were reviewed by the Police Advisory Board in February 1968 after more than a two year hiatus from doing its work because of a court injunction. The clipping can be found at the Local History Department of the Monroe County Library Downtown Branch. "10 Cases Reviewed By PAB," has no by-line. It was published in the Democrat & Chronicle newspaper on February 2, 1968.
While the Police Advisory Board became law in 1963 to address complaints against officers who were alleged to have used "excessive and unnecessary force," the Locust Club police union did everything in its power to thwart it from actually accomplishing anything. Two federal injunctions were slapped on it by the court preventing it from conducting investigations and forwarding recommendations to the chief of police--it's primary functions. The PAB was defunded in 1968, was found constitutional by the courts in 1969, and abolished in 1970 by a Republican Party-lead Rochester city government.
