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Critical Commentary
Police in Government (1974) sought to teach black youths how to behave under the façade of U.S. morality, which have been used as “…the legitimacy of physical and psychological violence against Black people in the United States and consequently served to legitimate the oppression of Black life” (Sojoyner, 2013) and were undermining Black organizing within public education and higher education. While the LAPD’s classes targeted Black youth, their mechanism to teach youth how to behave and teach moral standards did not stop with them. LLatinx students, primarily Mexican students, were also in public schools during the 1970s and were exposed to these classes and the technologies of control employed. However, these mechanisms were applied differently to Mexican students.While those mechanism were made for Blacks they were used with Mexicans. However, they were used in ways that would use state violence to control Mexicans, while giving them some of their demands to keep them working within dominating institutions that would continue to limit their organizing.