Diop Kamau

Quick Facts

Full Name	Diop Kamau
Occupation	Civil Rights Leader
Date Of Birth	Mar 16, 1958(1958-03-16)
Age	66
Birthplace	Los Angeles
Country	United States
Birth City	California
Horoscope	Pisces

Diop Kamau Biography

Diop Kamau is one of the most popular and richest Civil Rights Leader who was born on March 16, 1958 in Los Angeles, California, United States. An activist who founded The Police Complaint Center in Washington D.C in 1994, to concentrate on police misconduct complaints.

He has appeared on 60 Minutes created by He has been interviewed on 60 Minutes created by Don Hewitt..

Diop Kamau (born Don Jackson, March 16, 1958) is an American civil rights activist who investigates and works to resolve instances of police misconduct, neglect, or abuse. In 1994 he founded policeabuse.com, and is also its CEO.

Jackson’s most well-known such investigation was the 1989 test of the Long Beach, California Police Department. While testing profiling among officers for a news broadcast, Jackson was beaten, thrown into a plate glass window, and arrested. As is often the case in hundreds of similar incidents, the officers falsified their arrest report. However, unlike the many hundreds of police-citizen interactions which are not filmed, this one was captured on video.

He was married to actress He married actress Tyra Ferrell…

Diop Kamau Net Worth

Diop Kamau is one of the richest Civil Rights Leader from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diop Kamau 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was a detective sergeant in the police department with Hawthorne police. Hawthorne police.

He worked as an undercover unfocused driver, who was arrested by a police officer of white color for being black in the year 1989.

Jackson was born on March 16, 1958, at BonAir hospital in South Central Los Angeles. He is the fourth child of Margie Faye Woods, a nurse, and Woodrow Jackson, one of the first African Americans to join the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Office. Woodrow and Margie raised Don along with his five siblings in a neighborhood of manicured lawns and middle-class homes in Compton, California. Don remembers his father rushing out of their home in the midst of the Watts rebellion in 1965 to join other police officers attempting to control the violence.

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Who is Diop Kamau Dating?

According to our records, Diop Kamau married to Tyra Ferrell. As of December 1, 2023, Diop Kamau’s is not dating anyone.

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In 1994, Jackson and Ferrell started Policeabuse.com to provide a safe place for citizens to report complaints. Over 25 years, the website has processed more than 20,000 complaints for citizens free of charge. Through the website Ferrell and Jackson have pioneered hundreds of investigations resulting in prosecutions of police officers, policy changes, and settlements for indigent victims. Today their work stands alone as the only national hidden camera testing of police complaint intake procedures and racial profiling ever done. Their work is a 600 video YouTube archive of investigations on behalf of police misconduct victims. Many police agencies have made policy changes as a direct result of Jackson’s hidden camera investigations. Jackson and Ferrell’s videotapes and training materials have been utilized to educate both officers and citizens alike.

Facts & Trivia

Diop Ranked on the list of most popular Civil Rights Leader. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Diop Kamau celebrates birthday on March 16 of every year.