The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap Highlight

In one typical year, in 2005, more than 22,000 people in New York City were arrested for loitering. The vast majority of those arrests were dismissed, but the original crime in nearly all those cases—refusing to obey an order to move—was and is a legal absurdity, creating what one city councilman called an “epidemic of false arrest.”