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This racial group is 3 times more likely to be killed by police than white people.
Who are African Americans?
This police group was formed in 1838 after a clash between the White Anglo-Saxons and Irish Immigrants.
What is the Boston Police Department?
He is often called the father of modern policing in the United States.
Who is August Vollmer?
A term of phrase used to describe when a location’s factories, manufacturing jobs and overall industries decline.
What is De-industrialization?
A term used to describe how societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, unemployment,earnings, benefits,credit,media, health care and criminal justice, these patterns and practices in turn reinforce discriminatory beliefs, values and distribution of resources.
What is Structural Racism?
The members of this community are more likely to experience police harassment and arrest than straight and cisgender people.
Who are LGBTQ+ people?
This ideology claimed that white Americans were divinely chosen to expand across the continent, used to justify not only the seizure of Indigenous land but also the expansion of slavery and the systems of control that came with it.
What is Manifest Destiny?
A Term used to explain the way in which empires use their colonies as laboratories for methods of counterinsurgency, social control, and repression methods, which can then be brought back and deployed against marginalized groups.
What is the Imperial Boomerang Theory?
This group of people are 2.2x times more likely to be arrested for low-level offenses than white people?
What are African American arrest rates?
Slave patrols, Jim Crow policing, and mass incarceration all shared this common purpose.
What is social control?
Black, Indigenous, and other people of color experience disproportionate police stops, searches, and harassment compared to white Americans.
Who are Bipoc Communities?
This Phrase was used to describe regions in the south that produced massive amounts of cotton during the 1800’s
What is the cotton belt?
A term used to portray White Americans as superior to all other races and paints the picture that its the White American responsibility to civilize and uplift other races/groups.
What is the White Man’s Burden?
This Agency was formed under Nixon’s leadership, he formed this agency to coordinate efforts to fight against the war on drugs.
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency?
This term is used to explain the economic shift in investment into lower-income communities, which raises the values of those areas, and this leads to price increases, which push out original residents to other areas.
What is Gentrification?
The killing of unarmed men, excessive force during arrests, and racial disparities in police, shootings are all example of ongoing crises.
What is Police violence?
This 1680 law punished enslaved people for leaving their enslaver’s property without permission.
What Is Virginia Slave Code?
These tactics where used by Volmer during the war in the philippines, “..Used them to good effect in rounding up crooks … After all we’re conducting a war, a war against the enemy of society”- Volmer
What are military war tactics?
A term used to represent the theory of racism and capitalism together, racial differences and inequality is used to create profit, power, and control.
What is Racial Capitalism?
A phrase used to justify segregation by claiming racial separation was legal if facilities were considered equal.
What is "separate but equal?”
Advocates argue that this, which includes civilian oversight, use-of-force reporting, and consequences for misconduct, is the key to ending police violence.
What is Police Accountability?
A group that was created in the South used to monitor and control enslaved African Americans.
What is the slave patrol?
A test given out to African Americans in the south to try and stop African Americans from voting.
What are literacy test?
Nixon's former aide John Ehrlichman admitted that the policing was never really about drugs, it was deliberately designed to target Black communities and justify mass policing, arrests, and incarceration of people of color.
What is war on drugs?
Across slavery, segregation, and mass incarceration, policing evolved but consistently functioned to preserve systems where political, economic, and racial power remained in the same group.
What are existing power structures?