African American Police History

For over three hundred years, law enforcement departments in the U.S. have been targeting male African Americans. In many cases, the officers of the law use dishonest tactics in order to make false arrests, but it does not stop there, they often murder innocent people. It is a common event nowadays; you can see it in mass media: “another African American got killed by the police.” It happens over, and over. Furthermore, those tactics are not random acts committed by officers alone; in several instances, these acts are protected by their superiors. To become an officer of the law, they must take the Law Enforcement Oath of Honor where they swear to never betray the public trust, to uphold the Constitution, and obey the Laws. However, there is …show more content…
racial profiling is against the law. All officer enforcers swear to respect the laws; however, many officers across the country violate the rights they swore to respect, and protect. Even though, it has been over three hundred years since the beginning of the first form of terror towards African Americans by police, it is proved that the same form of terror it has continued until now. In 2002 the city of Cincinnati came to an agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice. Ridgeway, Greg affirms in his book Cincinnati police Department Traffic Stops: Applying RAND’S Framework to Analyze Racial Disparities, the fact that many police departments terrorize male African …show more content…
He was detained more than 250 times over a four-year period. He was arrested 62 times for trespassing. Every time he was arrested, he was at his work place, and every time he was charged for trespassing. His boss, owned and operated a market store were Earl worked, and eventually lived there. Earl’s boss was so fed up with the police harassing him, that he offered him to live in the store as a precaution from been detained.
In the article Florida police chief steps down after civil rights lawsuit, Brown, Tom reports the events. “On numerous occasions, the suit said Sampson was arrested for trespassing while taking out the trash or stocking shelves at the Quick Stop store where he worked…An embattled Florida police chief has stepped down after he and more than 75 officers under his command were accused in a federal lawsuit of misconduct and civil rights abuse in a predominantly black Miami suburb…No one at the city has an interest in protecting law enforcement officers that act in violation of the very laws that they have sworn to uphold” (Brown,