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

the bank gets to grease its accomplices with the fruits of that cheap government cash. You might wonder how it is that banks manage to get overworked sheriff’s departments in high-crime areas to actually detail deputies to evacuate foreclosed-upon houses. The answer is that every single one of those hundreds of thousands of credit judgments—be they foreclosures or credit card accounts—contains a line item with a court-mandated collection fee or other such payout to local law enforcement. When I went prospecting for robo-signed affidavits in the New Jersey court system, I found sheriff…