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Mirrors of Prejudice
Brown, William P. | April 21, 1969 issue

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Today the academic is considered the root cause of all problems. Particularly in reference to the racial crisis, policemen and professors have assumed an unprecedented importance to the society and, in a bitter debate as to whether the society is headed toward a police state or an unpoliced state, they have developed a mutually acrimonious relationship which bears significantly on our prospects for reaching any solution to that crisis. The policeman is worried about "Black Power." He wants law and order restored. The academic is worried about the growth in police power. He wants due process as reflected in the Supreme Court restrictions on police power, fully respected.

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COLLEGE teachers; RACISM; DEBATES & debating; POLICE -- Complaints against; POLICE-community relations; CRIMINAL justice, Administration of
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