New Building Honors ACLU’s Ramona Ripston

may not be a household name to Southern Californians, but for 36 years she had led the local chapter of the

American Civil Liberties Union, which definitely is. Yesterday, the ACLU

reported that blacks and Hispanics are stopped, frisked, searched and arrested by the Los Angeles Police Department more often than whites, concluding that the LAPD must do more to eliminate bias from law enforcement. Last week, across the street from the Police Protective League, the ACLU opened the

Ramona Ripston Center for Civil Liberties and Civil Rights. (Image: Ramona Ripston with staff attorney

Mark Rosenbaum)