Impact of Police Killings on the Family and Community of Youth Victims

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Making vital connections between US colonialism, structured and deputized violence, history of policing, and armed resistance by grassroots movements, the authors highlights survivors’ voices in the exploration of police violence and homicide in the United States.

This work highlights survivors’ voices in the exploration of police violence and homicide in the United States. Making vital connections between U.S. colonialism, structured and deputized violence, history of policing, and armed resistance by grassroots movements, the authors expand readers’ understanding of the purpose of U.S. policing.

Responding to data that showed that in 2016 and 2017, more than 135 children and teens lost their lives to police violence, the author team traveled to multiple locations across the United States to sit with, learn from, and capture survivors’ stories and experiences. Utilizing in-depth and public interviews, the book presents breathtaking, honest, and heart-wrenching narratives surrounding the impact of youth killed by police on the family, community, and activists. This book makes important connections between colonialism, the history of police corruption, and police killings of marginalized groups. Survivors’ narratives provide important, nuanced information surrounding the impact of youth killed by police, often with impunity, on friends, family, and loved ones of the victims.

Synthesizing these stories with an overview of the state of policing in the United States, this scholarship extends recommendations and strategies for organizers, activists, students, and scholars to redefine public safety, as well as police power and accountability, in Black, Brown, Indigenous, and poor communities.

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1. A Caution to the Reader: Our Journey That Led to This Work

Police Killings of Youth Phases I and II

Police Terrorism of Youth and their Communities with Impunity

Deputized Violence

Book Overview

2. Understanding the History and Purpose of Policing in the United States: From Armed Resistance to an Epidemic of Police Killings

Part I: History

History of Radical Resistance to Colonialism, Slavery, and Police Violence

Militarization of Policing

Part II: Contemporary

Impact of Colonial and State-Sanctioned Violence on Survivors

3. Groundings with Families and Communities of Youth Killed by Police: Designing Their Stories

Research Design

Settings

Sampling Frame and Sampling

Procedures

Data Collection

Data Management and Analysis

Grounded Theory

4. Their Stories Matter: Lessons from the Family and Community of Youth Killed by Police

Participant Introduction

Community Members of Youth Victims

Findings: Family and Friends

Findings: Community Members (Activists, Reporters, Lawyers, and Neighbors)

Summation of Findings, the Ripple Effect: Impact of Youth Killings by Police on Families and Communities

5. Making Sense of the Senseless: Where Do We Go from Here

Impact of Youth Killed by Police on Family and Loved Ones

Impact of Youth Killed by Police on Community Members and Activists

Struggle for Justice, Community Organizing, and the Meaning of Activism

Transforming Policing in the United States: Recommendations

The Necessity for Restitution and Reparation Justice for Survivors of Police Killings

Limitations and Implications for Future Research

Conclusion

6. If Not Us Then Who?: Implications for Our Collective Involvement (Epilogue) Police Killings, Social Terror, and Cognitive Conditioning

Implications for Educators and Service Providers

Implications for Youth

Implications for Activists