The Reality of Today
This modern issue involves unfair treatment by law enforcement and is often connected to racial profiling and excessive force.
What is police brutality?
Enslaved African Americans were commonly forced to work on ____ growing crops like cotton and tobacco.
What are plantations?
___ ____ is the reason for maintaining racial and social order and forming early stages of policing.
What is White Supremacy?
One major purpose of the evolution of policing during this era was to enforce violence and exploitation of these communities.
What are the Latinx and African American communities?
This system limited what systems and services minorities had access to, resulting in the main development of the inter-generational wealth gap.
What is Redlining?
Statistics in the fact sheet showed that this racial group is stopped and subjected to force at disproportionately higher rates compared to their percentage of the population.
Who are African Americans/Black Americans?
These laws and practices during slavery restricted freedom and controlled the movement and behavior of enslaved people.
What are slave codes?
"Seperate but equal" was established in this landmark in 1896. As long as establishments and institutions were deemed "equal", segregation was considered acceptable.
What is Plessy V. Ferguson?
Millions of dollars were contributed to the evolvement of this agency, which the focus and goal was to fight this "War on Drugs".
What is the Drug Enforcement Agency?
The intergenerational wealth gap kept wealth away from these groups. Policing keeps them controlled, while the housing crisis had people struggling to afford housing. This targetted and oppressed this groups.
Who are minority communities/ people of color?
This term described the practice of targeting individuals for suspicion or police action based mainly on their race or ethnicity.
What is racial profiling?
According to the notes, the first wave of policing developed in the South to control this labor system tied to production of this item.
What is cotton labor?
Policing was used to diminish and control this movement in 1954 that worked towards abolishing slavery and demanding equal rights.
What is the Civil Rights movement?
This act established in 1965 by President Lyndon B., supplied local police with military grade weapons in an attempt to intimidate and use violence to ensure racial discrimination and exploitation of minority groups.
What is the Law Enforcement Assistance Act?
Policing rates were extremely focused on these neighborhoods and communities that were affected by lack of wealth. This generated the outcome of the generational wealth gap and the ___ crisis.
What is the Housing Crisis?
Videos shared on this type of technology platform have helped bring national attention to cases of police brutality.
What is social media?
These laws restricted the freedom of slaves and forced labor upon them. This required surveillance by patrols.
What are slave codes?
August Vollmer, a veteran in the Spanish-American war in the Philippines, was the reason for development and evolution of this process. Using personal experience and techniques to develop these practices against racial groups. This was used to control minorities, labor workers, and increase quality of control.
What is Modern Policing?
What is the War on Drugs?
Housing, education, healthcare, and criminal justice maintain inequality within racial groups to this modern day with the evolvement of these topics covered in History 240.
What is the Racial Wealth Gap, Unhoused Crisis, and Policing?
This movement was created to protest police violence and demand equal treatment under the law for Black Americans.
What is the Black Lives Matter movement?
This is based on a system of power where settlers control and create a new society around themselves, destroying the indigenous cultures already existing while exploiting the people and land.
This thoery is based off the violence and intense practices governments used to take foreign territories and then developing control for racial hierarchy within their own citizens.
What is the Imperial Boomerang?
This concept is based on systemic racism, where society bases a persons value on their racial identity. This was the reason workers were exploited and looked at as "property".
What is Racial Capitalism?
This theory is based off the laws, institutions, and policing systems that were designed to maintain racial inequality and generational racial discrimination.
What is the structural racism theory?