The relationships between police and ethnic and racial minorities present some of the more enduring and complex problems in policing throughout the world. Such relationships can be harmonious, but they often are problematic. For example, minorities may be generally deprived of police protection and other services to which they are entitled. More specifically, police may refrain from addressing criminal behavior (e.g., domestic violence) within a particular minority group because they believe that members of that group typically engage in such behavior. A more acute problem is direct conflict between police and minorities. On the part of police, conflict may take ...(100 of 29314 words)