Book of Donmon Teith

Three weeks after Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a New York City police officer shot and killed a fifteen-year-old black youth, inciting th

Originally published in 1993, this was the first systematic attempt to understand the criminalization of Black people without resorting to either crude state co

How the Supreme Court’s decision to treat unreasonable policing as reasonable under the Fourth Amendment has shortened the distance between life and death for

"Reflected almost daily in headlines, the enormous rift between the police and the communities they serve--especially African American communities--remains one

Robertson and Chaney examine how the early antecedents of police brutality like plantation overseers, the lynching of African American males, early race riots,