ADM JUS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Jim Crow Laws, Reconstruction Acts, Kerner Commission
21 May 2020
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In order to make the police function more workable, to reduce the conflicting pressures on the police, and to assure that future investments in police improvement will bring a greater return, we must go back to fundamentals. Measuring police efforts by the quality of service delivered. Political era from introduction of the new police in the 1840s until the early 1900s. Police derived both their authority and resources from local political leaders. Omitted other crucial parts of the story of policing in america. Role of slave patrols and other police instruments of racial oppression. Role of police in imposing racially biased laws. Importance of racial and social turmoil in the creation of the first versions of america"s new police . Reflected an understandable, white, twentieth-century bias toward northern, urban, white conditions even majority of blacks were in south and stuff was happening down there with regards to policing and slave patrols.
