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Share: Detroit police aim guns at Black men during Detroit Uprising, July 25, 1967 / Image: AFP via Getty Images Detroit police killed hundreds of unarmed Blacks in response to the civil rights movement. Their ability to get away with it reveals why today’s initiatives to make police more accountable are bound to fail, and how we can do better. Clifford “Chucky” Howell, a thirteen-year-old Black male, was walking home from playing at a friend’s house when a white Detroit police officer shot him near his own backyard on the evening of Sept. 13, 1969. The patrol team did not summon medical assistance for at least forty minutes, and Chucky died later at the hospital. Officers on the scene claimed that he had been fleeing the burglary of a white family’s home, a felony, and that it was therefore appropriate to shoot him. Numerous eyewitness accounts, however, insisted Chucky had been an oblivious bystander. His parents and a local Black organizations protested, but law enforcement agencies refused their requests to examine the evidence. Through a secretive internal investigative process, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office found that “all facts and circumstances indicate justifiable action” in the officer’s use of fatal force.
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and i think that's part of the reason why you have the peaceful demonstrations there. because somebody's saying, wait a minute, let's at least take a look at this, try to figure it out and try to address these issues. >> you know, we saw in this country this massive spike in crime. it started in the late 1960s and 1970s. it sort of reached a crescendo if you look at the data in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and then we've seen this remarkable thing happen. in city after city that had different police tactics and different dynamics we've seen crime fall, pretty staggeringly, actually. do you think that has changed the politics on capitol hill or are the politics on capitol hill still very much mired in the kind of crime politics that were central in the 1980s and '90s? >> i think that politicians everywhere are looking at crime from a different perspective. keep in mind that a lot of the crime you're talking about was drug-related and we've got
kind of crime politics that were central in the 1980s and '90s? >> i think that politicians everywhere are looking at crime from a different perspective. keep in mind that a lot of the crime you're talking about was drug relted and we've got people sitting in jails today, chris, who have gone to prison for years for non-violent drug offenses. i think congress is looking at that and a number of jurisdictions are looking at that. and you've got people in colorado lining up with dollar bills for marijuana while i've got people in baltimore sitting in prison for buying and selling marijuana. again, yes, i do think the policies have changed. one of the things we found here in baltimore is we had more of a -- at one time we had more of a stop and frisk and they were arresting all of these mainly african-american men and they had -- and they thought that was the right thing to do.
respected. so again, i like the way the mayor in new york has handled this so far. and i think that's part of the reason why you have the peaceful demonstrations there. because somebody's saying, wait a minute, let's at least take a look at this, try to figure it out and try to address these issues. >> you know, we saw in this country this massive spike in crime. it started in the late 1960s and 1970s. it sort of reached a crescendo if you look at the data in the late 1980s, early 1990s, and then we've seen this remarkable thing happen. in city after city that had different police tact sxikz different dynamics we've seen crime fall, pretty staggeringly, actually. do you think that has changed the politics on capitol hill or are the politics on capitol hill still very much mired in the kind of crime politics that were central in the 1980s and '90s? >> i think that politicians everywhere are looking at crime
strategically last week when he commuted the sentences of eight people convicted of non-violent crack offenses. he passed legislation in 2010 to get rid of crack cocaine, it was 100 times that of powder cocaine. people are serving disproportionate pressen sentence, in a do you have on crime politics, it's in steep decline, they sent prison populations through the roof. a crime wave and politics dissipated. there are still democrats that seem scarred bety past. by the betting their party took for a generation for being seen as as soft on crime. another consequence of that tough on crime american politics has been that souring rate of incarceration that comes with a steep price tack some republicans are starting to balk at. this week, rand paul took to twitter for his airing of the