…U.S. Attorney’s Office put out a press release urging victims to come forward. Federal officials put up billboards, too, urging residents to report police brutality to the FBI. Meanwhile, on…
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…clear on police brutality and black men. What we have learned is that we have a new militarized police force. The new law enforcement officer is either a veteran of…
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…of black incarceration can prompt greater support among whites for tougher policing and prison programs. Keywords: crime, local reporting, racism, violence, police enforcement, police brutality, body cameras, technology, policing…
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…on policing in minority communities, including research on excessive or reasonable force, perceptions of police discrimination, how body cameras affect police interactions with the public, and deaths in police custody….
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…of police stop-and-frisk tactics. Keywords: police brutality, excessive force, body cameras, body cams, body-worn cameras, technology, policing, Eric Garner, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Freddie Gray, Freedom of Information, public…
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…than 500,000. Furthermore, urban outbursts were usually sparked by a specific kind of incident — an episode of real or rumored police brutality toward poor, minority urban residents. Incidents might…
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…concluded that young black males are 21 times more likely to be shot by police than their white counterparts: “The 1,217 deadly police shootings from 2010 to 2012 captured in…
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…about a third of whites believe blacks are treated less fairly by the police, while 70% of blacks said they believed police are less fair to them. Regarding treatment in the…
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…justice system.” “Procedural Justice, Police Legitimacy, and Helping the Police Fight Crime Results From a Survey of Jamaican Adolescents” Reisig, Michael D. Police Quarterly, March 2009, Vol. 12, No….
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…civil rights coverage across two eras, drawing threads from the findings of the Kerner Commission to the 2014 uprisings against police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri and Baltimore in 2015. The…
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