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43 Colum. J.L. & Soc. Probs. [i] (2009-2010)

handle is hein.journals/collsp43 and id is 1 raw text is: COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF LAW AND SOCIAL PROBLEMS Volume 43 Number 1 Fall 2009 Copyright 0 2009 by the Columbia Journal of Law and Social Problems, Inc. ARRESTED OVERSIGHT: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS AND CASE STUDY OF HOW CIVILIAN OVERSIGHT OF THE POLICE SHOULD FUNCTION AND HOW IT FAILS ................ 1 Police misconduct is a multi-faceted problem that no city can permanently solve, but every city must struggle with. Local politicians, courts and police departments generally do not do enough to punish and deter routine acts of police misconduct or to reform problematic police department policies. As a result, many municipalities across America have used civilian oversight of the police to address the problem of police misconduct. Unfortunately, numerous civilian oversight bodies have failed and been abolished while others have endured despite being roundly condemned as failures. Existing studies of civilian oversight have done little to indicate how failed civilian oversight bodies can be and should be reformed. In order to build a roadmap for reform, this Note details the oversight gap that civilian oversight has been used to fill and explores strengths and weaknesses of different types of civilian oversight bodies. It then argues that New York City's existing civilian oversight system has failed and proposes a series of reforms to improve how New York City's civilian oversight system functions. BEING NEIGHBORLY IN TITLE 20: USING THE IDEA TO LEND A HELPING HAND TO NCLB ...................................................... 51 Congress passed the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 to improve educational opportunities for poor and minority students. Reliable testing data show, however, that academic achievement gaps persist. This Note argues that the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act's individualized education program and due process provisions provide a valuable framework to amend NCLB to help it fulfill its two promises. First, an IEP for all non-proficient students would make the Act's second goal more realistic - that all students become proficient according to challenging state standards. Second, due process provisions giving parents a private right of action to challenge the sufficiency of their children's IEPs would help ensure NCLB's first goal is met - that all children have the opportunity to obtain a high quality education.

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