Criminal Justice Fact Sheet | NAACP
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on May 3, 2024
The criminal justice system is heavily impacted by the bias of police mentality, as well as outdated judicial precedents. It is largely driven by racial disparities, which directly obstruct and deconstruct our minority communities.
Origins of Modern Day Policing
The origins of our modern-day police mentality can be traced back to the "Slave Patrol". The earliest formal slave patrol was created in the Carolinas in the early 1700s, with the following mission: to establish a system of terror in response to slave uprisings with the capacity to pursue, apprehend, and return runaway slaves to . . .
