Blacks were defined as deviant and the police were in charge of social control over the black population. ... Slave codes were made to regulate the growing black population. ... In the South between the Reconstruction and the beginning of the twentieth century, the blacks made up 70 to 95 percent of prison population. ... As for the four LAPD officers involved in the arrest, they were unfortunately acquitted by the grand jury on April 29, 1992. ...

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Interstate 68 in 1992, returning from his grandfather's funeral, when a Maryland state trooper pulled the families rented Cadillac over for speeding. ... In recent years, victims report blacks as perpetrators of around 25 percent of violent crimes, although blacks constitute only about only about 12 percent of the nation's population. ... Leaving it up to individual states is not a good idea, either because some states with heavy African-American populations would probably enact such legislation to prevent racial profiling, whereas other states would feel it unnecessary to do anythin...

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Introduction: As we near the twenty-first century, the profession of probation is far more progressive than ever before. Computer and electronic technologies have advanced at a tremendous rate and provide the probation professional with an array of high-tech tools to monitor the whereabouts ...

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For instance the beating of Rodney King, which occurred March 2, 1992, in Pacoima, California was filmed by George Holiday, a 33 year old rugby player and general manager of Rescue Rooter a national plumbing company went to bed early and was awaken at 12:50 am by screeching rubber, he pulled the window shade aside and was blasted by the powerful spotlight, a Hyundai surrounded by a half a dozen, LAPD police cars (Skolnick 1-2). ... Between 1987 & 1990, 4,400 misconduct complaints were filed by African Americans, who made up 13% of the Los Angeles population....

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