Thoreau72
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Define specifically which harmful public policy and institutional racism you are referring to.
To borrow from the language of the DOI, "But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism....".
I know I sound like a broken record on this issue, but the guys at Law Enforcement Against Prohibition always made a good point, and I've met several of them over the years. The drug laws work against society, and they work against the law enforcement profession because they corrupt.
So to answer your question, IMO, drug policy is one such policy. The institutional racism is visible in many ways, as is the Lucifer Effect described and documented by Zimbardo. I'm white and consider myself damn lucky to have been born that way. Driving while black and doing almost anything else while black is a burden.
LEAP was right when they started, and they are still right today--the drug prohibition, zealously enforced especially, gives a bad name to the LEO profession.