Diop Kamau  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. Don Jackson is an African American civil rights activist and investigative journalist who has pioneered groundbreaking investigations into two of the nation's most pernicious dimensions of policing: bias-based profiling and the widespread refusal by the police to properly document serious allegations of abuse and egregious misconduct. 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. Jackson grew up in an environment where hard work was rewarded, and education was encouraged. He attended Birmingham high school where he excelled in sports, serving as captain of both his high school football and wrestling team. He went on to California Lutheran College on an athletic scholarship, where he earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. After college Jackson joined the Ventura County Sheriff's Office. His time there was punctuated by tests of his character and physical stamina. Despite the Ventura County police academy's record of washing out black recruits, Jackson graduated from the academy and later transferred to the Hawthorne Police Department where he would hone his skills as an elite undercover investigator. Jackson rose through the ranks quickly at Hawthorne as he sponsored several daring undercover operations. Jackson was taught by his parents that when you are African American you must often be twice as good as your competitors. With that in mind, he earned the top score on three consecutive promotional exams to become the youngest sergeant on the force. But as his career flourished, Jackson became frustrated with the routine brutality and frequent racism displayed amongst his peers. Jackson rebelled against his brothers in blue, first by filing complaints about misconduct directed against minority citizens, and later by going public with a complaint of racism at the Hawthorne Police Department. As Jackson's battle with the Hawthorne PD spilled into the media, his father Woodrow Jackson, who was near retirement, was stopped by a group of Pomona California police officers.