Our host, Carmen, an adjunct Criminal Justice professor, gives a short history of police in America and her perspective on the current movement to defund police departments in America.

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Sources:

Text: Siegle, L. & Worrall, J. (2018) Introduction to Criminal Justice (16th edition) Cengage Learning (Boston, MA)

https://time.com/4779112/police-history-origins/ (Overview of history)

https://plsonline.eku.edu/insidelook/brief-history-slavery-and-origins-american-policing (Slave Patrols)

https://www.sheriffs.org/about-nsa/history/roots (Sheriffs in USA)

Peel’s Principles: https://www.nwpolice.org/inside-new-westminster-police-department/history/

https://www.history.com/topics/early-20th-century-us/jim-crow-laws (Jim Crow Laws overview)

https://www.tulsahistory.org/exhibit/1921-tulsa-race-massacre/ (Overview of Tulsa)

https://youtu.be/x-ItsPBTFO0 (Vox report on Tulsa Race Massacre)

https://youtu.be/6TXj90wvCT8 (Rosewood Massacre overview)

http://crdl.usg.edu/events/watts_riots/ (Watts Riots overview)

https://youtu.be/6TXj90wvCT8 (Rosewood Massacre overview)

http://crdl.usg.edu/events/watts_riots/ (Watts Riots overview)

https://youtu.be/uaotkHlHJwo (LA92 Documentary)

https://youtu.be/sb9_qGOa9Go (Kimberly Jones - How Can We Win)

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