The Rise of Police-State America

From 1968: Richard Harris reports on Congress’s passage of the 1968 Crime Bill: “A piece of demagoguery devised in malevolence and enacted in hysteria.”
Photographer: Dick DeMarsico
Publisher: The New Yorker
Format: Digital
Date: 2020/07/15 (originally published 1968/12/06)

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Riots in Harlem in 1964, following the police killing of a fifteen-year-old boy, helped spur the drafting of the 1968 Crime Bill. Photograph by Dick DeMarsico / Getty

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