How Police Brutality became a Problem in the USA

It’s about time to talk about how police brutality got to this point. It was a gradual process. I’m here to offer a historian’s perspective on these issues, because it is a long and tortuous path from early policing to the heavily militarized police we have today. Interestingly enough, a lot of that beginning has to do with demilitarization, and for the last half century, that hard line between policing and domestic usage of the Army has steadily eroded away ------------------------------------------------------------ Chapters: 0:00 vignette 1:07 example footage 2:24 video explanation 3:22 historiographic note 4:25 YouTube problems 9:00 rest of the video ------------------------------------------------------------ Connected videos: Sectional Crisis: /watch/o0iyLIKA2fFAy wrongfully demonetized videos: /playlist/PLjnwpaclU4wUWJt6-1-dlVWrPfD4-lpOk sneak demonetization: /watch/IZmuR0PFArnFu Pearl Harbor: /watch/ENQAeDDwlUowA New Media Frontier: The Scholarly Value of YouTube: /watch/sUIVxk1PTKTPV Loving v. Virginia: /watch/0r0TimTzRgPzT Selma: /watch/wkKGIPyGT4YGG California History: /playlist/PLjnwpaclU4wUD7y8912ViyAtGfraKi9ru Mapp v. Ohio: /watch/MZlBf9LLpPdLB Miranda v. Arizona: /watch/UED_JBoo7JFo_ race riots: /watch/MhBn5UCkbAtkn Rise of the New Left: /watch/YuFKZcUPxLfPK ------------------------------------------------------------ See pinned comment and its replies for references, notes, responses, and errata ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: /user/CynicalCypher88 Support the channel through PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/CynicalHistorian or by purchasing MERCH: https://teespring.com/stores/the-cynical-historian LET'S CONNECT: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 Discord: https://discord.gg/Ukthk4U Twitter: https://twitter.com/Cynical_History Subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/CynicalHistory/ ------------------------------------------------------------ Wiki: Police brutality or police violence is legally defined as a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a subject. This includes, but is not limited to, bullying, physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, and death.[1] In some countries, "the color of law" protects officers from ambiguous situations

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