Defund the Police?

ON ENDING THE POLICE/COMMUNITY CONFLICT CYCLE

This issue of the Mad Sociologist in the News was so big, I needed two videos. In the last video I discussed the relationship between the police and black communities as a social conflict cycle rooted in history and grounded in our culture and institutions. Here is Part II where I start a conversation on how to end this conflict cycle in such a way that it benefits black communities and the police.

Sources

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

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Click to access ferguson_police_department_report.pdf

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https://madsociologistblog.com/2014/11/24/ferguson-and-the-thomas-theorem/

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These Resources were found after I mapped out the video. 

https://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/jul-aug-2020/features/police-culture-and-inequality

Click to access 8073NCJRS.pdf

https://www.hrw.org/legacy/reports98/police/index.htm

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https://www.asanet.org/news-events/footnotes/jul-aug-2020/features/demography-police-involved-homicides

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