Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black  Bree Newsome Bass Black Cops Don’t Make Policing Any Less Anti-Black The idea that we can resolve racism by integrating a fundamentally anti-Black institution is the most absurd notion of all. “The integration of police forces does nothing to alter their basic function as the primary enforcers […]

The persistence of racially biased policing means that unless American policing reckons with its racist roots, it is likely to keep repeating mistakes of the past. The Racist Roots of American Policing: From Slave Patrols to Traffic Stops — The Free Thought Project

The Kenosha Police Department has come under heavy scrutiny in recent days after one of its officers shot Jacob Blake multiple times in the back at close range. Later, after protests erupted, its officers stood shoulder-to-shoulder with local militia, one of whom — a 17-year-old boy — would go on to shoot three people, returning… Kenosha […]