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>> the bureaucracy of mass incarceration has grown into a monster of many heads. locking up large numbers of people began as a way to control black activists during the civil rights movements in the 1960s. in the 1980s, black behaviors were criminalized as the war on drugs focused on crack. by the 1990s, with widespread racist fear of super predators, there were so many people incarcerated, prisons became an industry. now, that industry has become so lucrative, so far reaching the moral issue is complicated by the financial issue. after the shooting of michael brown by a police officer in ferg...

In the 1980s, black behaviors were criminalized as the war on drugs focused on crack. by the 1990s, with widespread racist fear of super predators, there were so many people incarcerated, prisons became an industry. now, that industry has become so lucrative, so far reaching the moral issue is complicated by the financial issue. after the shooting of michael brown by a police officer in ferguson, the u.s. justice department investigated. they found the local government was using unnecessary fees and fines in order to extract large amounts of money from poor and black people. >> this investigat...

Were criminalized as the war on drugs focused on crack. by the 1990s, with widespread racist fear of super predators, there were so many people incarcerated, prisons became an industry. now, that industry has become so lucrative, so far reaching the moral issue is complicated by the financial issue. after the shooting of michael brown by a police officer in ferguson, the u.s. justice department investigated. they found the local government was using unnecessary fees and fines in order to extract large amounts of money from poor and black people. >> this investigation found a community where lo...

Kids as super predators, thugs or animals to be caged. >> thank you for having me. >> i have some misgivings about government's effectiveness and wisdom, but government doesn't get everything wrong. every now and again it will get something right. one thing it did get right is it adopted policies in the late '80s. reagan, bush, clinton was a big part of this. we hired many more police. they are going to be more careful about what they do. we have had more aggressive and computer driven policing.

The puppeteers of the system would prefer that we see these kids as super predators, thugs or animals to be caged. >> thank you for having me. >> i have some misgivings about government's effectiveness and wisdom, but government doesn't get everything wrong. every now and again it will get something right. one thing it did get right is it adopted policies in the late '80s. reagan, bush, president clinton was a big part of this. during the clinton years we hired many more police. when you have many more police criminals going to be more careful about what they do. we have had more aggressive, p...