Gruenwald and Americop co-creator, penciller Dave Hoover’s unknown personal politics aside, Fighting Chances suggests a very earnest concern about social instability in America. Yes, the concern was very much on people’s minds at the time of Americop’s civilian-murdering antics in the pages of Captain America. He states, “From these numbers, it is clear that the federal government is not making the slightest dent in the problem of police brutality.” Davis introduces the statistics of officer assault cases filed between 19: 86, an incomplete number due to the rarity of reportage. The same year Americop arrived, Peter L Davis, an Associate Professor of Law at Touro College, published the alarmingly titled paper “ Rodney King and the Decriminalization of Police Brutality in America” in the Maryland Law Review. The Rodney King beating in 1991 was excruciatingly fresh in everyone’s mind by Americop’s June 1994 debut. Though we wouldn’t want to read today’s political landscape into the thirty-year-old work of a now-deceased writer, it is important to note that police brutality was in the media heavily even then.
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