Detroit Under Fire: Police Violence, Crime Politics, and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Civil Rights Era is a book-length multimedia digital exhibit created by a 22-person research team in the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab. The exhibit documents police brutality and misconduct, policies of racial criminalization, and civil rights/black power activism and resistance in the city of Detroit from the emergence of the modern anti-police brutality movement in the late 1950s through the violent STRESS era of the early 1970s. The researchers uncovered 188 police killings of civilians during this time period and created more than 50 maps to display these patterns alongside other brutality and misconduct incidents that the Detroit Police Department almost invariably covered up. The exhibit includes a five-part series of synthetic StoryMaps that introduce each chronological section and gather all of the maps in a single place.
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