Law Enforcement's Image Problem Is Kind Of Timeless

1951

There's a reason "law and order," and "traditional values," don't mean much in America.

"[Sheriff Willis McCall] shot two [blacks in custody] — one died — on a remote road in north Lake while bringing them from state prison to the county jail after learning that their convictions had been overturned by the Supreme Court."

2014

What Americans mean by "law and order," and "traditional values," is the reason.

"State Police said [19-year veteran Connecticut State Police Trooper Aaron “AJ” Huntsman] has maintained his innocence even after he was shown a video of him taking [a dead motorcycle victim's gold chain and] money that was captured on the dash camera of his own police car."

Whites Laugh At Blacks But Their Ignorance Is Profound

You may not think of Connecticut as a slave state, but in the mid 1700s, New London County held more slaves than anywhere else in New England. Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison referred to our state as the "Georgia of New England." This fact is one of many that can unsettle our Yankee sensibilities. Connecticut residents, especially white ones, grow up thinking they were on the right side of abolition, of the civil war, and later, of the civil rights movement. But the history, and the real path for African Americans who live in the state, is much more complicated,...