NYTimes review of Ghettoside about the inadequate policing of murders in inner cities shows the triangulation against black men: murder, mass incarceration, police brutality. I guess we could add a fourth, unemployment and a fifth, lack of education.
The LA Times review emphasizes the misapplication of the law, which puts black men in prison for drugs but doesn't enforce murder laws.
We read this book in a "tale of two cities," a nation with declining violent crime and another, in the inner city, where violence is unchecked.
Support, refute, or complicate the book's assertion that policing is misguided, spending too much attention incarcerating black men for drugs but no incarcerating violent criminals and how this contradiction evidences moral bankruptcy in law enforcement.
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