This Sociologist Spent Five Years on LA's Hyper-Policed Skid Row. Here's What He Learned.

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University of Chicago sociologist Forrest Stuart spent five years hanging out on Los Angeles's grittiest streets for his new book, Down, Out and Under Arrest: Policing and Everyday Life in Skid Row. (For a taste, read this short excerpt.) "I figured this was ground zero for trying to start over, for testing the American bootstraps story, and I wanted to see if and how it could work," Stuart explains. I spoke with the young assistant professor about the things he learned amid the street people and cops.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/sociologist-spent-five-years-hyper-policed-hellhole-heres-what-he-learned

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1. K&R

We are an inhumane country.