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> Also, I can't decide if cops have started to do this more, or that they've always done but there weren't as many cameras around to record it, and only the poo
by lkbm 11y ago
> Also, I can't decide if cops have started to do this more, or that they've always done but there weren't as many cameras around to record it, and only the poor people got to experience that side of the "law".
I don't know either, but Chicago had a police torture scandal that occurred in the 70s and 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge
I very much doubt that police treatment of black people is WORSE than before. Maybe we were briefly better in the 80s and 90s, but I don't see any reason to believe so.
- krapp 11y agoI think it's more that police treatment of black people is more visible to mainstream American consciousness due to the ever increasing coverage of it on the news - which is itself mostly chasing after the ratings brought in by the Michael Brown shooting case.
- kafkaesq 11y agoChicago had a police torture scandal that occurred in the 70s and 80s. The spirit of which appears to continue, in various guises, through the current day. We might even say it's in their DNA: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-police-detain-americans-black-site http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-polic...