Madeleine (“Maddie”) Turner, a third-year undergraduate student at U-M and a research associate with the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, has created “Precinct Violence: Hidden Brutality Inside Detroit Police Stations During the Civil Rights Era,” a research publication of the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab which is part of the Documenting Criminalization and Confinement (DCC) Collaboratory Project Grant.
Drawing upon the website exhibit Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era, Turner’s investigative report “highlights episodes and patterns of police violence inside Detroit Police Department…precinct stations during the modern civil rights era, from the late 1950s through the early 1970s.”
Through archival materials and interactive maps, Turner demonstrates how “precinct station violence often began in the streets, especially during traffic stops based on illegal but common police policies of racial profiling.”
Turner is majoring in Political Science and minoring in History of Law and Policy.