NPR | Black Americans being victimized and killed by the police is an
epidemic. A truth many Americans are acknowledging since the murder of
George Floyd, as protests have occurred in all fifty states calling for
justice on his behalf. But this tension between African American
communities and the police has existed for centuries. This week, the
origins of American policing and how those origins put violent control
of Black Americans at the heart of the system.
If you would like to read more about the topic:
- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
- The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Nobody: Casualties of America's War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond by Marc Lamont Hill
