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NYPD used to kidnap black people into slavery2026 Jun 11smithsonianmag.com
In the early days of the New York Police Department, a cabal of officers would literally kidnap black people off the street and "return" them to the South, collecting the Fugitive Slave bounty for doing so, even if the black person in question had never been a slave nor a fugitive. It was a corrupt system of institutional racism inside an organization which still exists to this day.
In the early days of the New York Police Department, a cabal of officers would literally kidnap black people off the street and "return" them to the South, collecting the Fugitive Slave bounty for doing so, even if the black person in question had never been a slave nor a fugitive. It was a corrupt system of institutional racism inside an organization which still exists to this day.