TY - JOUR
T1 - “We’re Still Dying Quicker Than We Can Effect Change”
T2 - #BlackLivesMatter and the Limits of 21st-Century Policing Reform
AU - Phelps, Michelle S.
AU - Robertson, Christopher E.
AU - Powell, Amber Joy
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - Black Lives Matter protests in the mid-2010s thrust police violence into the public spotlight, highlighting the stark racial divide in experiences with law enforcement and prompting a wave of police reform. We examine how residents in low-income neighborhoods on the Northside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, made sense of this focus on police violence and reform across racial lines. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 112 adults, we show that there was broad consensus on the social problem of racialized police violence, but Black residents perceived the problem as more severe, more persistent, and in need of more dramatic forms of racial redressment than their white neighbors.
AB - Black Lives Matter protests in the mid-2010s thrust police violence into the public spotlight, highlighting the stark racial divide in experiences with law enforcement and prompting a wave of police reform. We examine how residents in low-income neighborhoods on the Northside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, made sense of this focus on police violence and reform across racial lines. Drawing on interviews with a diverse sample of 112 adults, we show that there was broad consensus on the social problem of racialized police violence, but Black residents perceived the problem as more severe, more persistent, and in need of more dramatic forms of racial redressment than their white neighbors.
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U2 - 10.1086/717671
DO - 10.1086/717671
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85124071317
SN - 0002-9602
VL - 127
SP - 867
EP - 903
JO - American Journal of Sociology
JF - American Journal of Sociology
IS - 3
ER -