re: Dennis Prager on why poverty does NOT cause crime

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i agree with you here. i disagree that race has anything to do with the implementation or execution

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That's potentially true presently. But when this current harsh round of "law and order" was put in place in the late-80's and early 90's, it was basically explicitly aimed at black people. And that's the point - it basically created a massive incarceration of a specific population...for crimes that did not match the sentencing nor that matched the treatment of white offenders. Then couple that with punitive treatment of ex-cons and you get the current underclass.