Research

Scope and Content Note

Records in this series include hearing transcripts, interview notes, complaint forms, questionnaires, subject and correspondence files, tape recordings, and minutes generated by the Knapp Commission. The records contain information on specific types of criminal activity and on police involvement in them; on relations between the police and citizens in black and Hispanic neighborhoods; and on the work habits and culture of New York City police. A nearly complete set of transcripts of the public hearings held by the commission in October and December 1971 is found in accretion 16012-90, Box 40. (The State Archives never received a transcript of the October 26 hearing.)