In my opinion, the historical role of the police in enforcing slavery in the south and later segregation contributed to present-day-police minority relations because by 1700 most southern colonies were afraid of the dangers that the slaves would establish. Therefore, the southern states created codes that banned slaves from having weapons, gathering in groups, resisting punishment, or leaving plantation (Miller, Hess, and Orthmann, 2014). However, many slaves still resisted their bondage. In addition, this caused a problem because in some southern states the slaves outnumbered the colonist. According to Reichel (1999) notes, “ the white colonist feared the slaves and viewed them as dangerous threat which established the development of special
