The racist roots of American policing: From slave patrols to traffic stops
- Written by Connie Hassett-Walker, Associate Professor of Criminal Justice, Kean University
A new slogan for an old problemPhoto/Lynne Sladky Outrage over racial profiling and the killing of African Americans by police officers and vigilantes in recent years helped give rise to the Black Lives Matter movement.
But tensions between the police and black communities are nothing new.
There are many precedents to the Ferguson, Missouri...
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