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2 days ago · The increase in the prevalence of highly publicized police officer-involved homicides (OIHs) of Black and Hispanic community members has eroded trust in law enforcement. This study posits that these OIHs are a manifestation of the structural disparities resulting from racial/ethnic segregation in metropolitan areas.
5 days ago · Policing Black Bodies goes beyond chronicling isolated incidents of injustice to look at the broader systems of inequality in our society--how they're structured, how they harm Black people, and how we can work for positive change.
- Debra Sambuco
- 2020
5 days ago · Four years ago, the murder of George Floyd, the Black man whom the nation watched die while pinned to the ground under Minnesota police officer Derek Chauvin’s knee, galvanized protests...
5 days ago · Policing the Black Man: Arrest, Prosecution, and Imprisonment by Angela J. Davis; Bryan A. Stevenson; Marc Mauer; Bruce Western; Jeremy Travis Call Number: 364.3496 P766 2017 ISBN: 0525436618
- Jennifer Rohan
- 2018
4 days ago · The controversy about biased policing seems to draw endless fuel from race-based differences in public perception. Simply put, the vast majority of White citizens in the United States believe the police are doing a good job, including on issues of racial equality, while a similar percentage of Black citizens hold the opposite opinion. Brad Greenwood, professor of information systems and ...
1 day ago · I am among the few colored men who have tried conscientiously to bring about understanding and co-operation between American Negroes and the Labor Unions. I have sought to look upon the Sons of Freedom as simply a part of the great mass of the earth’s Disinherited, and to realize that the world movements which have lifted the lowly in the ...
3 days ago · Goals include the rehabilitation of offenders preventing other crimes, and moral support for victims. The primary institutions of the criminal justice system are the police, prosecution and defense lawyers, the courts and prisons.
