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Systemic Inequality in Law Enforcement

Illustrates a simple "bad apples" model of police brutality.

Illustrates a simple "bad apples" model of police brutality.


The goal of this project was to explore what it means for a problem to be systemic, and to set a foundation for further research surrounding structural feedback loops in law enforcement (e.g. hot spots policing, the blue wall of silence, militarization of police forces, the War on Drugs and the definition of a crime, a culture of dehumanization, legal estrangement within civilian communities). Importantly, a glaring gap in existing police research is lack of community involvement — by focusing on agent-level analyses while still incorporating data from studies with more traditional research techniques, I hope to bring greater emphasis to the perspectives and lived experiences of those who have been most impacted by injustice in policing.