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After a series of police shootings of black citizens along Fourteenth Street during summer 1968, the Black United Front held neighborhood hearings on police behavior from which emerged a list of thirteen demands for “community control” of the police department. “We have always had community control [of police],” Ruth Bates Harris observed wryly. “The problem is that it has been white community control.”
Chocolate City
Chris Myers Asch, George Derek Musgrove
To Renn’s point, most American cities are divided on these issues. Perhaps the most useful thing the model does is obscure that debate behind a veil of scientific certainty. Behind hard, solid numbers. “From the standpoint of a citizen, these numbers essentially come out of a black box,” he said. “You don’t have any idea how they generated these numbers, so you can’t begin to critique them.”
The Broken Algorithm That Poisoned American Transportation
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