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Cops & Blacks: Warring Minorities
Toch, Hans | April 21, 1969 issue

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This article focuses on conflicts between blacks and police in the U.S. The objective situations of blacks and police are in many ways similar. The police inhabit a ghetto of their own and they are doomed to segregation. They have little hope of man-to-man communication with civilians, who tend to be nervous and self-conscious in encounters with officers. The average person finds it difficult to feel open and at ease with a man who sports a conspicuous firearm, who is entitled to question, search and arrest him. Even the officer's wife and his children may experience some awe, distance and reserve among peers. This is a standard problem for minorities, and most minorities react to it defensively.

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BLACKS; POLICE; MINORITIES; RACE discrimination; RACE relations; POLICE-community relations; UNITED States
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