History Question?...ON The Kerner documents?

Question

"The Kerner Commission Report on civil disorders, 1968"

question:
According to the commission, were the riots criminal acts? If so, who were the criminals? If not, why not?

Answer 1

I have reviewed the "The Kerner Commission Report on civil disorders". I don't see where criminals were mentioned.

In the 1960's, Racial issues were highly volatile.

There were criminal acts on both sides.

I am attaching a link for you to study

Answer 2

That report was not about the crime.. meaning not about the ppl that were arrested during the riot for disorderly conduct, etc... It was a study... a study of the causes and how to deal with similar situations or repeat occurrences.

The commission presented its findings in 1968, concluding that urban violence reflected the profound frustration of inner-city blacks and that racism was deeply embedded in American society. The report's most famous passage warned that the United States was "moving toward two societies, one black, one white — separate and unequal." The commission marshaled evidence on an array of problems that fell with particular severity on African Americans, including not only overt discrimination but also chronic poverty, high unemployment, poor schools, inadequate housing, lack of access to health care, and systematic police bias and brutality.

The report recommended sweeping federal initiatives directed at improving educational and employment opportunities, public services, and housing in black urban neighborhoods and called for a "national system of income supplementation." The Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., pronounced the report a "physician's warning of approaching death, with a prescription for life." By 1968, however, Richard M. Nixon had gained the presidency through a conservative white backlash that insured that the Kerner Report's recommendations would be largely ignored.