Police Terror and Lawless Order

[Joanne98]

"I see a growing prison-garrison state in which urban residents will become the targets of mounting police murder and incarceration." The author's grim assessment is based on the "absolute disregard for the sanctity of Black life" that marks each era of American history, from chattel slavery to the 50-bullet New York City police barrage that killed Sean Bell. Urban police practices constitute a kind or organized terror that remains essentially unchanged even after police ranks have become integrated. "Big city police forces are infected with a culture of racism and violence that historically has sanctioned the savage and brutal treatment of Black people, other people of color, and the poor.

Police Terror and Lawless Order
by Dr. Floyd W. Hayes, III

"Cops work in a largely autonomous institution that sanctions, and even encourages, racialized injustice and
http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=625&Itemid=1

[Demeter]

1. One More Recommendation For Our Souls' Salvation

and the future of the nation...

[MattSh]

2. Thanks Joanne98

The stuff you post here at DU is a breath of fresh air; not in a pleasant, refreshing sense, but in the "this is what is really going on" sense.

Keep it up.....