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White Supremacy in Law Enforcement by jdhickory is a document available to read on EtoBox.

This document discusses the history of white supremacy ideology within U.S. law enforcement. It describes how, from the colonial period through the Civil War era, police and slave patrols were primarily focused on controlling the slave population and enforcing racial hierarchies. After the Civil War, southern police forces continued to harass and threaten blacks, and some southern police officers were members of the Ku Klux Klan. The document argues that white supremacist beliefs have endured within law enf

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jdhickory

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