Chapters 2 and 3 of the Next Jim Crow enlightened me to the overwhelming inequality that I had no idea was present to such an extent. I was familiar with the stop and frisk implementation but really had not put together how interweaved and calculated such blatant racial bias was. It infected our legal systems, legal proceedings, social institutions, schools, curriculums. We were being raised to trust the very system that would act as a crutch for our still withstanding racism as a country. Even now the NYPD is doing small tasks that do nothing more than remind the general citizen who’s in control. They are handing out false tickets for jaywalking just to ‘remind’ citizens about the laws concerning walking across the street. will this be effective? or will it only provoke citizens?
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