Oral history interview with Graham Weatherspoon, 2015

Biographical Note

Graham Weatherspoon is a retired detective of the Transit Police Department's Major Case Unit and NYPD's Brooklyn North Robbery Unit. Over the course of 21 years with the police, 1974 to 1995, he served as vice president of the Transit Guardians Association, and was a founding member of 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. At the time of this interview he was a board member of the Amadou Diallo Foundation, and also a public speaker

Scope and Contents

Graham Weatherspoon talks primarily on the subject of his experiences with the Transit Guardians Association and with 100 Blacks in Law Enforcement Who Care. He also covers formative memories of his years as a Transit Police detective through the 1970s, 1980s, and early 1990s, as well as his youth growing up in East New York in the 1950s and 60s. Weatherspoon shares his views on contemporary politics, and his commentary on the conduct of the New York Police Department regarding high profile shootings of African American police officers and civilians

Subjects

• African American police--New York (State)--New York.
• East New York (New York, N.Y.)--History.
• Interviews
• NYPD Guardians Association.
• New York (N.Y.). Police Department--History.
• New York (N.Y.). Transit Police Department.
• Oral histories
• Strong, Liz, interviewer.
• Weatherspoon, Graham--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2015