The emphasis in this report is consistent with this Commission's long history of concern with issues of police-community relations. Such monumental reports as Who Is Guarding the Guardians (1981) and Racial and Ethnic Tensions in American Communities: Poverty, Inequality, and Discrimination-Vol. III: The Chicago Report (1995) have supported the crucial work of police in suppressing crime. They have also pointed out, as does this report, that the police can more effectively exercise their responsibilities if the community knows that they will not violate civil rights. The right of freedom from crime is a primary right, so is the right to insist that the police are law-abiding.