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The Problem with Policing

Structural Racism and Defunding the Police I started to script a Mad Sociologist in the News report on the Defund the Police movement when I realized that the issue was more lengthy than I could handle in one episode. So this is the opening episode in which I outline the history of racism and policing…

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Structural Racism and Defunding the Police

I started to script a Mad Sociologist in the News report on the Defund the Police movement when I realized that the issue was more lengthy than I could handle in one episode. So this is the opening episode in which I outline the history of racism and policing and the nature of the problem of police brutality and race. The next video, Episode 3b, will deal with potential solutions.

Sources

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https://www.cato.org/survey-reports/policing-america

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/black-men-threatening

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2017/03/black-men-threatening

Racism is More Complicated Than That!

Click to access ferguson_police_department_report.pdf

Click to access HLC104_crop.pdf

Implicit Bias, the Thomas Theorem and Police Violence

Ferguson and the Thomas Theorem

Click to access psp-pspi0000092.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01846-z

https://openpolicing.stanford.edu/publications/

https://theconversation.com/the-racist-roots-of-american-policing-from-slave-patrols-to-traffic-stops-112816

Click to access the-history-of-policing-in-us.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4800748/

Legalize It All

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/aug/28/reince-priebus/did-hillary-clinton-call-african-american-youth-su/

https://www.vox.com/2018/12/1/18121221/george-hw-bush-willie-horton-dog-whistle-politics

https://www.vox.com/2020/6/5/21279530/ta-nehisi-coates-ezra-klein-show-george-floyd-police-brutality-trump-biden

https://wwnorton.com/books/A-Colony-in-a-Nation/

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/06/13/atlanta-shooting-police-officer-kills-black-man-wendys-drive-thru/3183209001/

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2020.html

Click to access mhppji.pdf

https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/sites/8483c82f-en/index.html?itemId=/content/component/8483c82f-en

https://www.hamiltonproject.org/charts/rates_of_drug_use_and_sales_by_race_rates_of_drug_related_criminal_justice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/02/police-marching-with-protesters-george-floyd-reform

https://time.com/5854986/police-reform-defund-unarmed-guns/

https://www.nj.com/camden/2020/05/nj-police-chief-carries-banner-helps-lead-march-in-peaceful-protest-of-george-floyd-killing.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/06/07/over-past-60-years-more-spending-police-hasnt-necessarily-meant-less-crime/

Click to access cops.pdf

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0011128710382263?journalCode=cadc

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/13/18193661/hire-police-officers-crime-criminal-justice-reform-booker-harris

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-prisons-make-us-safer/

https://eji.org/news/study-finds-increased-incarceration-does-not-reduce-crime/

https://www.vox.com/2020/5/31/21275994/police-violence-peaceful-protesters-images

https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-defunding-the-police-really-means/

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2020/6/1/21276828/pandemic-protests-police-public-health-black-lives-matter

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/24/police-huntsville-alabama-mental-health-call/?arc404=true

Click to access 50819_ch_1.pdf

2 responses to “The Problem with Policing”

  1. currenteventlover Avatar
    currenteventlover

    Very interesting! You should check out https://teenagecrusaders.com/2020/07/25/black-lives-matter-a-history-of-systemic-racism-and-what-we-can-do-now/…a young blogger with a perspective I think you would enjoy.

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