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Police Brutality In The Criminal Justice System

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No one is a stranger to the reality of racial profiling in the police force. Police brutality is not a new topic within American culture but it seems, for the past decade, it afflicts the black community above all else. With the senseless death of black adolescents, black men, and black women increasing and in a highly publicized way, there has to be a solution to the growing problem. But the Jim Crow laws extends beyond the criminal justice system into every aspect of democratic society in America. The criminal justice system increasingly serves as a universal home for punishment and control that focuses predominantly on black and brown and poor people. Black bodies are publicly humiliated in displays of state violence that reinforce unequal
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