More young black men were stopped and frisked by NYC police last year than live in the city

[EFerrari]

15. There's so much more to it than fear.

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In fact, I'm begining to see that mass incarceration is one way the conservative status quo perpetuates itself.

You target black and brown youth in your fake drug war and you create a huge private prison industry. Big cash money for police departments incentivizes lots of arrests, not urgent arrests. More, since "felons" can't vote, you can divert Federal funds from the home communities where these people lived out to the rural, mostly white communities where these people are warehoused WHILE you are building a conservative voting majority in Democratic strongholds by disenfranchising millions of voters for the rest of their lives.

Efficient.