The Department of Justice’s report on its investigation of the Ferguson, Mo. Police Department debunked one of the nation’s most popular policing philosophies, and hardly anyone noticed.
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The bottom line: The majority of white Americans believe the nation's police are doing a good job despite that work often ending in the deaths of unarmed black people.
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The slogan, the movement was always about more than Mike Brown.
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Other Fergusons loom on the horizon, and we shouldn't wait until an officer shoots another person and a city erupts to fix them. The lessons emerging from Ferguson can and should guide a nationwide overhaul to police reform. Now, while the whole country is focused on this issue, we should seize this moment to develop solutions that are as comprehensive as the problems are vast.
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Ending police brutality isn’t up to the communities that are brutalized. It’s up to the cops.
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In a country that has identified black people as its criminal element, public safety (and perceived security) is more tied to the suppression of blacks than it is to the suppression of crime. And as long as the public insists on its myth of black criminality—almost as an article of faith—police practices will be impossible to reform.
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In attempting to acknowledge all sides in conversations on race, President Obama overlooks essential truths.
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This phobia of black rage is nothing new. It motivated the slave codes that prohibited blacks from handling guns. It morphs wallets into weapons. Ironically, it’s why Ferguson police responded to what was a gathering of concerned residents with armored vehicles and tear gas. Almost laughably, it even led authorities to believe that the 1963 March On Washington would surely erupt into violence.
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Examining the connections between the lynchings of yesteryear and the police brutality blacks face today.
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Ferguson coverage by some of the most venerable news sources revealed a mix of bias, laziness and sensationalism. The failings that have resulted are being exposed on the Internet.
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It’s time President Obama step in to protect protesters in Ferguson, Missouri.
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