NCJ Number
128518
Date Published
1989
Length
20 pages
Annotation
This 1988 annual report of the U.S. Justice Department's Community Relations Service (CRS) focuses on its activities in resolving community disputes resulting from racial, ethnic, or national bias and in assisting immigration and refugee resettlement.
Abstract
The CRS received $33,790,000 in fiscal year 1988 for programs and salaries for 118 permanent positions. A summary of CRS activities and achievements focuses on the conciliation and mediation of community disputes, technical assistance, the placement and resettlement of Cuban and Haitian entrants, program improvements and management initiatives, and regional trends and highlights. Specific issues addressed in 1988 included racial tension in housing projects and higher education, complaints of unfairness towards minorities in elementary and secondary education and in police use of excessive and deadly force, and problems in minority recruitment and promotion. Every area of CRS casework grew in 1988, but the greatest increases were experienced in the areas of higher education and the activities of hate groups such as the Ku Klux Klan. The number of cases involving formal mediation more than tripled. Mediation, including court-referred mediation, is being used as a more timely and responsive dispute-resolution method than litigation.