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1950 -66 Warden of the Ghetto (Police and Carceral Regime)
1media/Chief Parker - Warden of the ghetto_thumb.jpeg2022-07-05T23:15:00+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4916William H. Parker, who headed the LAPD from 1950 to 1966, is considered the originator of the warrior cop policing style.(Los Angeles Times) The LAPD’s racial animus during this time is often attributed to the bigotry of its chief. Parker was a cartoonish racist who likened Black people to monkeys and thought Latinos inherently criminal due to their descent from what he called the “wild tribes” of Mexico. He once complained during a television news interview that an influx of African Americans moving to L.A. to escape the Jim Crow South had “flooded a community that wasn’t prepared to meet them. We didn’t ask these people to come here.” According to Kramer, Parker was a punch-below-the-belt politician who maintained his authority in part by spying on his adversaries and threatened them with the dirt he uncovered. Yet he wasn’t some rogue white supremacist who slipped through the cracks into his position. Parker enjoyed strong support from L.A.’s white business leaders and homeowners. Even after the brutality of his department drew national scrutiny in the wake of the 1965 Watts riots, Parker’s white base of support rallied around him. It took death, not outrage, to finally remove him from his position in 1966, after which city leaders changed the name of LAPD headquarters to honor him — and kept it there until 2009. Parker’s LAPD, much like other problematic police departments across California, was possible only because of the support of the white power structure. And that power structure wanted residential segregation. L.A.’s powerful real estate industry, as detailed in Andrea Gibson’s “City of Segregation,” did everything it could to enforce and profit from segregation. According to Gibson, the industry furthered the myth that Black and Latino integration was bad for property values, thus ensuring a premium on homes in white communities, while simultaneously imposing artificial scarcity in segregated ones, driving up prices for jam-packed residents of color who were prevented from living elsewhere.plain2022-07-12T20:52:46+00:001950-66Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
12022-07-06T00:15:25+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a491960s Subculture of Black Solidarity at San Quentin - NOI - Nation of Islam4Malcolm X had weekly columns published by The Herald Dispatch - called God's Angry Mengallery2022-07-14T21:13:54+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
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12022-07-26T23:46:32+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49Policing and Carceral RegimeGina Leon14Research Frameworkgallery2023-10-23T20:30:50+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49