Police brutality will inevitably occur under any law system. This includes earlier periods of time when police brutality was barely recorded and nobody cared or asked questions. I have found some songs ranging from different time periods that prove this point.
(2012)
a song which spoke to the persecution of inner-city blacks and predated the 1992
(1986)
Response to anti-apartheid protests in South Africa.
(1960)
A song that described the police back in the 60’s
(1955)
Recounts the 1955 lynching of a 14-year-old black boy named Emmett Till