If you can find it still I'd recommend watching the episode of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver from the other week. A really powerful breakdown of why the police in the US have such a problem with race.
A bit of it is covered here:
https://www.yesmagazine.org/video/jo...dern-policing/
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Quoting from Michelle Alexander’s 2010 book The New Jim Crow: “As one Alabama planter said, in the wake of emancipation, ‘We have the power to pass stringent police laws to govern the Negroes—this is a blessing—for they must be controlled in some way or white people cannot live among them.’”
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