Well you see, decades of underpolicing murder and serious crimes, while overpolicing minor crimes and mental illness essentially led to a breakdown in the state monopoly on violence in certain African-american communities, resulting in the rise of gang culture...
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And of course the employ of that capital itself is... you guessed it! A crime! So we've got addicts fueling demand, committing a crime every time they succumb to their addiction, community small businesses with all employees committing crimes, violence underpinning it all...
And we haven't even gotten to lead poisoning and its effects on impulse control, broken school systems, the psychological effects of oppression... there's a LOT of reasons we commit crimes, friend.
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The question you gotta ask yourself is: under all that pressure, would you stay clean? Or would you find yourself a "criminal" too? How about your siblings? Your cousins? Your friends? If they didn't all stay clean under that pressure, how would you want them treated?
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