Causes and prevention of crime

We had been there for over 12 hours. The man was still 30 feet up a tree, balancing on a branch directly over one of the main railway lines out of one of the busiest train stations in the country. He refused to talk to us, threatening to jump if we came too close. To him, we were the enemy. My job was to preserve his life.

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A radical reckoning with the racial inequality of America’s past and present, by one of the country’s leading scholars of policing and mass incarceration