The End of Policing

In the end, however, a study of their practices five years later showed that 75 percent of all stops were still directed at black and Latino motorists.

despite the “post-racial society” rhetoric, racism and bias remain omnipresent in American society—nowhere more than in the realm of criminal justice.

A recent report found only fifty-four officers charged for fatal on-duty shootings in the last ten years; of those, only eleven were convicted. Their average sentence is only four years, with some receiving only a few weeks.

Recent research shows that the closer whites live to blacks, the more positive their views of the police are—which did not augur well for an indictment in a place like Saint Louis County. White jurors are much more likely to side with police, regardless of the race of the officer and the person killed.