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“Results show that expansions in percentage of blacks in states in the Northeastern United States lead to growth in state police strength.” & “It seems likely that… police… in the Northeast continue to … suppress[]… politically or economically threatening [groups]."
Race, Politics, and Public Safety: A Panel Study of U.S. Highway Patrol and State Police Strength, 1981-2015
RIMCIS: International and Multidisciplinary Journal of Social Sciences
Vol. 7 Issue 1, p. 1,
2018
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