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crime, increasing tension and conflict with police
            departments, some rioting, and politicians banging the Drum of
            War to take stronger police and monitoring actions. "Law & Order"

Stronger police action mainly against black people.

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This monitoring discrimination of blacks is demonstratedly nationwide.

Therefore, it is also a smoking gun for arguing
for retention of affirmative action programs.

You don't really think it's just law enforcement, do you?

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: "Lock 'em Up", The Washington Post, 5/19/96
: 
: Harvard economist Richard Freeman thinks it's ironic that proportionally
: more people are in jail in the Land of the Free than in any other nation
: on Earth. The U.S.A. has FIVE TIMES the incarceration rate as the United
: Kingdom, Germany or France.
: 
: Freeman says that prison is emerging as America's answer to the "reduced
: demand for less-skilled male workers." European countries deal with unem-
: ployable guys by putting them on the dole, he says.
: 
: In this country, we throw them in jail after they commit a crime to survive.

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Factoid: poor black households' telephone usage is dramatically different
from other groups and can be picked out statistically using just the time,
length, and number of calls per telephone.
[ page 61, "The Rise of the Computer State", David Burnham, 1984 ]


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