A Brief History of
Policing in America

Slave Codes & Slave Patrols

(Arrival - 1864)

Fugitive Slave Laws

(1793 - 1864)

Convict Leasing

(1844 - 1928)

Black Codes

(1865 - 1866)

Ku Klux Klan

(1866 - Now)

Jim Crow Laws

(1880s - 1950s)

Lynching

(Arrival - Now)

Great Migration

(1910 - 1970)

Restrictive Covenants

(1910s - 1930s)

Redlining

(1934 - 1968) 

Civil Rights Movement

(1954 - 1968)

Black Power Movement

(1960s - 1970s)

"Tough on Crime" Rhetoric

(1968 - Now)

War on Drugs

(1971 - Now)

Broken Windows POliciNG

(1980s - Now?)

Crack Epidemic

(1980s - 1990s)

Mandatory Minimum Sentences

(1980s - Now)

1994 Crime Bill

(Um, 1994...)

POlice Militarization

(2001 - Now)

Publicity of POlice Brutality

(2009 - Now)

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  by Khalil Gibran  Muhammad
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• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime 
  by Elizabeth Hinton
• The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
• Dark Alliance by Gary Webb
• Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
• The Other Wes Moore by Wes Moore
• Ghettoside by Jill Leovy
• The End of Policing by Alex S. Vitale

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