Giles, Michael W.

This thesis analyzes the legal institutional structure of the
urban community, as symbolized by the police, to determine if differences
in the capacity to function effectively was a significant factor in the
urban racial violence of the mid-1960's. Performance capacity was
operationalized by the following objective measures for pre-riot
"normal" times: quality of manpower potential, municipal governmental
structure, confrontation potential, and potential resources of the
community. Additional independent variables were the city's total
population and socio-economic measures of absolute and relative deprivation.
Although the results were not conclusive, only a community's
confrontation potential, potential resources , and total population
size were found to significantly contribute to an explanation of a
community's riot potential.

This study has confined itself to examining two specific questions:
(1) Are other minorities educationally isolated to the same extent
as Negroes? and (2) Does the level of concentration of other minorities
in the school population influence their segregation as has
been the case for Negroes? Results of the present study show
Negroes to fare significantly less favorably in the area of educational
segregation than the other minorities under study. Furthermore,
whereas the percent Negro showed a significant relationship
with the level of Negro school segregation, no such relationship
was found for the other minorities in this study. Controlling for
regional and ethnic variations did not significantly alter these
findings.