Reagan, Ronald
Real Rape (Estritch)
“reasonable suspicion”
Rector, Ricky Ray
reparations
reporting of crime. See crime reporting and underreporting
research, academic
research, damage-centered. See “damage-centered” research
research, journalistic
research, psychological
research, scientific
resisting arrest
respect; in dealing with police
respectability politics
responsibility. See personal responsibility
restorative justice programs
Rice, Tamir
rights of arrestees. See arrests: arrestee rights
rights of defendants. See defendants’ rights
rights of police. See police rights
riots
robbery
Roberts, Michele
Rock, Chris
Roithmayr, Daria
Ross, Rick
running, danger of (for black men)
Rustin, Bayard
Rydberg, Jason
sadism
Sampson, Robert
Sanders, Bernie
Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, 2012
San Francisco
Saturday Night Live
#SayHerName
Scalia, Antonin
Schneckloth v. Bustamonte
schools; police; single-sex; suspensions. See also high school dropouts
scientific research. See research, scientific
Scott, Walter
Scottsboro case
Scott v. Harris
searches. See airport frisking; police searches
segregation; Moynihan view; Supreme Court cases. See also schools: single-sex
self-defense against unarmed people
sentencing; drug offenses; homicide; plea bargaining. See also punishment; three-strike laws
“separate but equal”
Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
sexual abuse and harassment by police
sexual assault; lawsuits; by police. See also rape
sexual harassment in the workplace
sexual stereotypes
Sharpton, Al
Sherman, Richard
shootings: Brownsville, Brooklyn; by police; Sanford, Florida. See also fatal shootings by police
Simon, Jonathan
Simpson, OJ
sit-ins: public opinion
skin color: effect on sentencing
Sklansky, David A.
slavery; abolition; uprisings
Small Business Association loans
Smiley, Tavis
Smith, Jaden
Smith, Stephen A.
snitches and snitching
Social Security
Sontag, Susan
Sotomayor, Sonia
South Asians
Southwest Airlines
spitting in public
squad car light-flashing. See police car light-flashing
state prisoners
stereotypes; Asian American men; “black features”; black men; “black names”; gender; unlearning
stop-and frisk policing; “how not to get stopped”; New York City; preventing stop from becoming arrest
stripping of suspects
studies, academic. See research, academic
studies, journalistic. See research, journalistic
studies, psychological. See research, psychological
studies, scientific. See scientific research
stun guns, Tasers, etc. See conducted energy devices (CEDs)
Stuntz, William J.
subsidies, government
suicide
Supreme Court, U.S. See U.S. Supreme Court
surveillance
surveys, public. See polls
suspicion, “reasonable.” See “reasonable suspicion”
Tasers, stun guns, etc. See conducted energy devices (CEDs)
Task Force on 21st Century Policing. See President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing
teenagers; brain development; dress; killed by police; mouthing off; sentencing; stop and frisk; violent crime. See also Brown, Michael; Martin, Trayvon
Terrill, William
terrorism; KKK
Terry v. Ohio
Texas. See also Dallas; Houston
theft. See also robbery
Thirteenth Amendment
three-strike laws
Title IX. See Education Amendments Act of 1972: Title IX
torture by police
traffic stops; DOJ interventions and; prevention
transgender people
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
trespassing
trials
Truman, Harry
Trump, Donald
Turner, Nat
Tyler, Tom
Tyson, Mike
unemployment
unions
United Kingdom
United Negro College Fund Black Male Initiative
unlearning bias
uprisings, rebellions, etc.; slaves
urban myths
urination in public
use of force, police. See police use of force
U.S. Congress. Black Caucus. See Congressional Black Caucus
U.S. Constitution: amendments. See Fifteenth Amendment; Fourth Amendment; Thirteenth Amendment
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ); Guinier; police dept. interventions (Ferguson); police dept. interventions (other); use-of-force guidelines
U.S. Supreme Court; affirmative action; arrestee rights; chokehold; death penalty; “police super powers”; racial definition by; racial profiling; segregation; sexual harassment; Wardlow. See also Terry v. Ohio
Vance, Cyrus
Van Schaack, Beth
Vesey, Denmark
victims’ justice programs. See restorative justice programs
victims of police torture, compensation of
victim statistics. See crime victim statistics
violence by police. See killings by police; police use of force
violent crime; DOJ interventions and; non-reporting; public defenders; statistics. See also homicide; sexual assault
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994
violent masculinity (trope)
Virginia v. Adkins. See Adkins v. Virginia
Vogue
voters and voting: alternative models; presidential elections; whites. See also disenfranchisement; Fifteenth Amendment
Voting Rights Act of 1965
Wade, David
Wardlow case. See Illinois v. Wardlow
war on drugs; stop and frisk and
Washington, D.C.; bystander intervention; public defenders
“Waste Watch” program, Orange County, California
wealth inequality
weapons, less-lethal. See less-lethal weapons
Webbie (rapper)
When Affirmative Action Was White (Katznelson)
white men; Afrocentric features; demographics; Eddie Murphy view of; employment; high school dropouts; homicide by; homicide victims; incarceration rate; at Jay-Z concert; outlook on future; plea bargaining; in scientific studies; suicide; values; violent crime
“white names”
white-on-white crime
white people, life expectancy of
white people, middle-class. See middle-class white people
white people, poor. See poor white people
white privilege
white supremacy; as monopoly
white women
Whren v. United States
Wideman, John Edgar
Williams, Calvin
Williams, Verna
Wilson, Darren
Wilson, Orlando W.
Wilson, William Julius
“Wilson Report” (Dept. of Justice)
witnesses. See also character witnesses
women; chance of rape; life expectancy; murder by; preventing arrest; violent crime. See also black women; white women
women police officers
Wonderlic Cognitive Ability Test
X, Malcolm. See Malcolm X
Young Men’s Initiative (YMI)
Young Thug
Zimmerman, George
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
A former federal prosecutor, Paul Butler provides legal commentary for MSNBC, CNN, and NPR and writes for the New York Times and the Washington Post. A law professor at Georgetown University, he is the author of Let’s Get Free: A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice (The New Press) and lives in Washington, D.C.
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