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Paul Butler
Paul Butler is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center. He is the author of the forthcoming book
Chokehold: Policing Black Men
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Mike McQuade (Illustration); Al Seib / Getty; Kent …
When Black America Was Pro-Police
As crime rose from the late ’60s to the ’90s, so did inner-city support for law-and-order policies.
Paul Butler
June 2017 Issue