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This 3-page paper analyzes the article "Minority Threat and Police Brutality: Determinants of Civil Rights Criminal Complaints in U.S. Municipalities" by Malcolm Holmes.
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disproportionate amount of police brutality, i.e., use of force by law enforcement, directed at the minority community? According to anecdotal evidence, yes. Throughout U.S. history, in fact, there have been
accounts of excessive use of force to "control" minority groups, immigrants and others that are outside the mainstream of society. During the latter part of the 20th century, as civil
rights became an issue, questionable practices by law enforcement to the ethnic and minority communities continue, but in response, these communities have been able to register misconduct complaints to the
civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Armed with some of this data, Malcolm Holmes at the University of Wyoming sought to prove (or disprove) the hypothesis that
complaints about law enforcements use of excessive physical force filed with the Department of Justice rises in direct proportion to the number of ethic minorities in a particular community. Furthermore,
in trying to plug the gap in research, Holmes focused his particular research on Hispanics in the southwest, rather than blacks. Holmes points out that theories about police brutality and
minorities tends to focus on blacks, to the exclusion of other ethnic groups. To conduct his research, Holmes examined data from three sources;
the Department of Justices Police Brutality Study 1985-1990; Uniform Crime Reports during the same period and the 1990 U.S. Census. The study was limited to municipal police departments in U.S.
cities with populations higher than 150,000 people, with a special focus on the southwest. The dependent variable, by the way, was the average annual number of civil rights violations criminal
complaints. Because "location" is such a huge factor, the researcher also introduced dummy variables indicating regions (with main focus involving the Southwest, and Hispanic populations).
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