A COLONY IN A NATION
by Christopher Hayes · first published 2017
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256 pages ; 25 cm
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The problems of appropriate policing in so-called "high crime" neighborhoods are well understood. Many academic studies, as well as popular non-fiction like Jill Leovy's Ghettoside and Chris Hayes' Colony in a Nation, have discussed the issue. To sum up the literature in a few sentences, the problem is that minority neighborhoods are both overpoliced and underpoliced. There are a lot of useless arrests for minor crimes…
on “Machine learning is fundamentally conservative” ↗…books. Among those I can remember reading and would recommend, these are published in the past <5 years and are <150 pages (or <5 hour audiobook): - Discrimination and Disparities By: Thomas Sowell - A Colony in a Nation: Chris Hayes - Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates (three very different takes on race relations in America) - Astrophysics for People in a Hurry: Neil deGrasse Tyson - Seven Brief Lessons…
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