A Night of Terror at the Algiers Motel Reprise

Dr. Carol François and Kourtney Square, the aunt and niece duo, are taking a self-care break, but until they return with a new episode of Why Are they So Angry? listen to this reprise of "A Night of Terror at the Algiers Motel".  Citing the extensive research from Radley Balko’s compendium of studies about systemic racism in the criminal justice system and harrowing encounters with police brutality as detailed in the Algiers Motel incident, the pair trace the long history of policing and over policing starting as far back as America’s Colonial times.

Citations:

Campaign Zero, https://www.joincampaignzero.org/

“Eight Can’t Wait Project”, https://8cantwait.org/

“Slave patrols: an early form of American policing, Chelsea Hansen, July 10, 2019, National Law Enforcement Museum, https://lawenforcementmuseum.org/2019/07/10/slave-patrols-an-early-form-of-american-policing/

Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II, Douglas A. Blackmon, Doubleday, 2008.

Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in Virginia and the Carolinas, Sally Hadden, Harvard University Press, 2003.

“There’s Overwhelming evidence that the criminal justice system is racist. Here’s the proof”, Radley Balko, Washington Post, June 10, 2020.