This article takes a completely different viewpoint of police brutality. Terrence Allen and Michaux Parker show the relationship between police officers and the members of the community that the officer patrols. Parker and Allen use studies to show how the officers would act in situations based on the type of community they patrol. Different scenarios could include predominantly black communities, white communities, high or low income housing, or areas that surround the community they patrol. This source is the best one I have out of all of the others. The research done in this article are key building blocks in understanding on why police violence occurs in certain communities.
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Going as far back as the 1960s police and citizen interactions engendered many race riots which changed urban America. Throughout historical cases of police brutality minorities began to see patterns of white racism and ultimately saw the police as what Holmes described as, “oppressors protecting the interests of the white community” (2). Going as far back as the 1960s and using historical information this book uses scientific reason on why police brutality occurs. Social-psychology, out-group and in-group bias, and stereotyping are just some of the few ways Holmes reasons on why police brutality in America transpires. This book in not only good for scientific reason and historical cases on police brutality, but rather a way to learn how to control or prevent cases from