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War on Drugs Policing and Police Brutality
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Cooper HL
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2015[]; 50
(8-9
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BACKGROUND: War on Drugs policing has failed to reduce domestic street-level drug
activity: the cost of drugs remains low and drugs remain widely available.
OBJECTIVES: In light of growing attention to police brutality in the United
States, this paper explores interconnections between specific War on Drugs
policing strategies and police-related violence against Black adolescents and
adults in the United States. METHODS: This paper reviews literature about (1)
historical connections between race/ethnicity and policing in the United States;
(2) the ways that the War on Drugs eroded specific legal protections originally
designed to curtail police powers; and (3) the implications of these erosions for
police brutality targeting Black communities. RESULTS: Policing and racism have
been mutually constitutive in the United States. Erosions to the 4th Amendment to
the Constitution and to the Posse Comitatus Act set the foundations for two War
on Drugs policing strategies: stop and frisk and Special Weapons and Tactics
(SWAT) teams. These strategies have created specific conditions conducive to
police brutality targeting Black communities. Conclusions/Importance: War on
Drugs policing strategies appear to increase police brutality targeting Black
communities, even as they make little progress in reducing street-level drug
activity. Several jurisdictions are retreating from the War on Drugs; this
retreat should include restoring rights originally protected by the 4th Amendment
and Posse Comitatus. While these legal changes occur, police chiefs should
discontinue the use of SWAT teams to deal with low-level nonviolent drug offenses
and should direct officers to cease engaging in stop and frisk.
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