Urban Crisis Planning - Special National Workshop - Case Background Information - The City of Oz - March 7-9, 1979, New Orleans, Louisiana

• NCJ Number: 86884
• Author(s): C S Diver; S R Isaacson
• Date Published: 1979
• Length: 36 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: US Dept of Justice; US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub
• Corporate Author: University Research Corporation
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: National Criminal Justice Executive Training Program

Annotation

Prepared for an urban crisis planning exercise, this document describes the medium-sized hypothetical city of Oz and devises three crisis situations to be resolved by workshop participants.

Abstract

The city description includes demographic data on its neighborhoods, the municipal governmental structure, size of the police force, legal provisions for maintaining public order, the district court capacity, and community organizations. The crisis situations are a citywide power blackout with an attendant looting rampage, racially provocative demonstrations that incite counterdemonstrations with potentially violent undertones, and stalled labor negotiations on the brink of a strike by the city's public employees' collective. Additional background data on Oz are appended. Tables and charts are given. Program staff, participants, and observers are listed.