Alaina’s Reviews > The Killing Fields of East New York: The First Subprime Mortgage Scandal, a White-Collar Crime Spree, and the Collapse of an American Neighborhood > Status Update

"if human beings are confined in ghetto compounds ofour cities, andare subjected to criminally inferior education, pervasive economic and job discrimination, committed to houses unfit for human habitation, subjected to unspeakable conditions of municipal services, suchas sanitation, thatsuch human beings arenot likely to be responsive to appeals to be lawful, to be respectful, tobe concerned with property of others."

“It did not escape notice that laws that were disproportionately applied to people of color were easy to pass, while laws that would primarily affect white criminals were not even suggested.”