The Nature of Police, the Role of the Left
Learning From Ferguson
Gelderloos, Peter
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/09/the-nature-of-police-the-role-of-the-left/
Date Written: 2014-12-09
Publisher: CounterPunch
Year Published: 2014
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX17084
Iit would be hard to deny that the police are a racist institution par excellence. They kill young Black, Latino, and Native people at a disproportionately higher rate than white youth, and the institution itself descended from the patrols created to capture fugitive slaves in the South and police urban immigrants in the North.
Subject Headings
