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

The policing policies that sprang up around these and other theories, and that were based upon the idea that crime is encouraged by poor family structure and neighborhood disorder, were all about creating an atmosphere that would check the unconscious impulse toward crime. Let’s make people actually think before they jump a turnstile, and that impulse to think about consequences will be nurtured and grow with each arrest, and over time you’ll create a law-abiding citizen. It actually sounds good in theory. But there are two big problems with it.