American Police Practices Based on Slave Patrols

Police Trained By Racists

Like the early slave patrols, current policing systems reinforce racist practices by other culpable agencies, departments, and entities. Slave patrols were backed by laws, courts, businesses, and religious groups. Those are the same entities that back and support the unjust killings of Black people at the hands of police today. In fact, many of the officers who’ve murdered innocent Blacks have been rewarded and financially supported as though they’ve accomplished acts of valor—just like the slave patrols.

Today, police departments across the U.S. are influenced and trained by some of the vilest exploiters of the Black community. So-called Jewish groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) have a history of colluding with the FBI to spy on and plot against Black power groups and movements. Moreover, the ADL boasts of their Law Enforcement Training throughout the U.S. The same departments associated with police brutality against Blacks can be traced to those racist groups who help train the officers and feed them false information about progressive Black groups.

The Students for Justice in Palestine also made that connection when the group posted on Facebook that the “genocide” of African-Americans was being perpetrated by those responsible for the “genocide” of Palestinians. This is grounded in the fact that theADL sponsors police trainingbased on some of the same violent practices Israeli police use against the Palestinians.

This is no different from 300 years ago, when religious groups and businesses that had a vested interest in slavery backed and sponsored the slave patrollers. Among those groups were Jewish merchants and rabbis, for as the Jewish Encyclopedia notes: “the cotton-plantations in many parts of the South were wholly in the hands of the Jews, and as a consequence slavery found its advocates among them.” Today, Jewish groups like the ADL have maintained a vested interest in the systemic containment and exploitation of the Black community. Their influence in public policies and police enforcement—which serve as occupying colonial forces—protects their interests and pockets, not the lives of Black people.

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