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“Virtually every officer shares some responsibility for protecting [bad] officers. We should not expect kids to trust the police when officers lie and cover for fellow officers… Little contributes more to Black teens’ sense of powerlessness than this blue wall of silence."

Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago‘s South Side: Acknowledging the Realities Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago‘s South Side: Acknowledging the Realities Overarching principles of fairness and respect for the dignity of others should not only determine how police treat people when stopped. They should also determine whether police engage in the encounter at all. There will be interactions between police and Black youth. Some of those encounters can and should lead to an arrest. Some will lead to a use of force. Those are necessary parts of policing-necessary to keeping people safe. However, our infatuation with preventative, proactive policing in the U.S. has led to millions of negative interactions between Black citizens and the police each year, some of which have ended disastrously. 244 Many if not most of these encounters need never have occurred. Overarching principles of fairness and respect for the dignity of others should not only determine how police treat people when stopped. They should also determine whether police engage in the encounter at all. There will be interactions between police and Black youth. Some of those encounters can and should lead to an arrest. Some will lead to a use of force. Those are necessary parts of policing-necessary to keeping people safe. However, our infatuation with preventative, proactive policing in the U.S. has led to millions of negative interactions between Black citizens and the police each year, some of which have ended disastrously. 244 Many if not most of these encounters need never have occurred.
Youth/Police Encounters on Chicago‘s South Side: Acknowledging the Realities
University of Chicago Legal Forum
Futterman, Craig B. / Hunt, Chaclyn / Kalven, Jamie
Vol. 2016 Issue 1, 2016
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/uclf/vol2016/iss1/5
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