Criminalization of Blackness being tied to social unrest
Police brutality
War on black people
Police as an occupying army
Going along w/ war on crime and war on drugs
Systemic repression - @ 1st Acts of intimidation were used to precondition young blk men to fear police and the power of yt-ness
incentivization of incarceration and crime
War abroad and at home
Rise in policing led to the rebellion
Johnson's Law Enforcement Assistance act
The city was INCENTIVIZED to do this
White Detroiters are threatened by the mere presence of black ppl
Has always been this way
Origins of the police dept.
Criminality is tied to civil rights unrest
Riot vs rebellion
Roots in underground railroad organizing
More crime meant more funding, crime stats started being calculated differently
Michigan's prison population has increased b/c intensified criminalization of blk ppl and urban space
Urban/black spaces as inherently criminal
Increase of prison population has a significant impact on detroit
Families
Breakdown of economic structures
Inviability of the legal job market
Yt ppl have memory of Detroit being high crime leading up to '67, there's an idea of yt ppl leaving b/c crime
Crime was not on the rise
Ppl were sick of how they were being policed
War on crime comes from how federal gov't began articulating civil rights issues as criminal issue
Urban space was criminalized, disorder vs order
Penalties created/increased
Communities where policing and incarceration occur are decimated communities
Crime being tied to civil rights unrest
Johnson sending federal troops and tanks to Detroit
Way innocents suffered during rebellion
Nothing changed after rebellion
Police terrorism thru stress
Death, raids, etc
War on drugs tied to ways to control blk community