The Ad Hoc Committee on Safety in a Diverse Environment plans to issue its report on police misconduct at Penn on March 1.
Members of the task force -- charged with analyzing the relationship between the Department of Public Safety and black males -- will review a draft of the report in the next week. Committee Chair and Interim Provost Peter Conn will then incorporate suggestions into the document, which will be sent to University President Amy Gutmann for final approval.
Gutmann set the end of February as the deadline for the report.
The statement will include specific policy recommendations for the DPS and an analysis of the Penn Police's response to last spring's Ad Hoc Committee on Racial Profiling. The Committee on Racial Profiling was formed after Spruce College House Associate Faculty Master Rui DaSilva was wrongfully arrested and pepper-sprayed in October of 2003.
The committee's members have reached a "high degree of consensus on the majority of the document," Conn said. "I would be optimistic about receiving a sign-off by the committee's members."
-- Mara Gordon
