ABSTRACT
This chapter examines particular variety of intergroup relations in the United States and England—relations culminating in social racial violence. Reports of incidents of racial violence in England suggest that colored persons have more frequently been arrested and that police have not always acted with complete impartiality. The chapter describes whether patterns of urban racial violence and particular expressions of violence are differently manifested in different types of ecological areas. It deals with a variety of anti-riot activities by external forces of control, viz., police and the military, and of municipal government authorities. In the Detroit riot, with a limited number of police reserves, almost the entire force was concentrated in the areas of violence soon after the rioting started. Police forces in the major metropolitan areas in the North, which might presumably be the scene of interracial violence, increasingly have arrested whites and Negroes without distinction.
