NEGRO VISIBILITY.

In the Fall of 1952 a research project dealing with racial factors and law enforcement was begun under the auspices of the Greenfield Center for Human Relations, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. An attempt was made to discover the extent to which Negroes were being integrated into urban police forces, and to this end employment data were collected from our 20 largest cities. Another phase of the project dealt with an investigation of the relationship between race of offender and race of arresting officer. Still another area involved assignment policies and efficiency patterns as they pertained to the interrelation of Negro and white police; for example, the extent to which Negroes and whites were being assigned as partners to the same patrol car, and the interaction between white patrolmen and Negro commanders. The latter two phases were conducted in the City of Philadelphia and entailed the gathering of district arrest figures by race, as well as an extensive interviewing program with police commanders, Negro policemen, Negro community leaders, and editors of the Negro press.