Merrick Bobb ’68, a “godfather” of the modern police oversight movement, passed away at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles on August 28, 2025. His health had deteriorated in recent years. Merrick came to Dartmouth from East High School in Denver and majored in English. After Dartmouth he sought a graduate school experience, and U.C. Berkeley, “a large coed school … alive with the social and political movements of the late 1960s” fit the bill. He left Berkeley married to Aviva Koenigsberg, Wellesley ’67. In L.A. he clerked for a federal judge and worked for private law firms (1973-96), specializing in antitrust and performing corporate investigations. During his long career Merrick uncovered problems within major law enforcement agencies from L.A. to Seattle. His most significant work was accomplished after he contracted Guillain-Barré syndrome in 2003 while attending son Matthew’s Dartmouth graduation. The disease left him wheelchair-bound with limited use of his arms and legs. In 1991 Merrick served as deputy general counsel for the Christopher Commission, which examined the use of force within the L.A. Police Department following the 1991 beating of Rodney King. For two decades, beginning in 1993, Merrick also served as special counsel to the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. In 2001, with the support of the Ford Foundation, he founded the Police Assessment Resource Center (PARC), a national nonprofit dedicated to effective, respectful, and constitutional policing. Merrick is survived by sons Jonathan and Matthew ’03, four grandchildren, and ex-wife Aviva.