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The Los Angeles County Commission on Human Relations released its annual hate crime report for Los Angeles County in 2021, showing hate crimes have reached the highest level in 19 yearT
Review of “The Rage of Innocence: How America Criminalizes Black Youth,” by Kristin Henning. Pantheon Books, $30.
"Mass Incarceration Retards Racial Integration" The title of this post is the title of this recent working paper authored by Peter Temin for the Institute for New Economic Thinking. Here is its abstract: President Nixon replaced President Johnson’s War on Poverty with his War on Drugs in 1971. This new drug war was expanded by President Reagan and others to create mass incarceration. The United States currently has a higher percentage of its citizens incarcerated than any other industrial country. Although Blacks are only 13 percent of the population, they are 40 percent of the inca...