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How You Start is How You Finish? The Slave Patrol and Jim Crow Origins of Policing

www.americanbar.org How You Start is How You Finish? The Slave Patrol and Jim Crow Origins of Policing

Though history books may say otherwise, policing in the United States has its roots in the slave patrols in the South. The institution of policing, and the larger justice system, must reconcile its past in order to evolve away from its racist roots.

Though history books may say otherwise, policing in the United States has its roots in the slave patrols in the South. The institution of policing, and the larger justice system, must reconcile its past in order to evolve away from its racist roots.

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