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?The Wire,? American Cities, & ?Cheating the Stats?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

It is absolutely impossible to understand the decline of American cities and the marginalization of the inner city without appreciating how the performance of major institutions such as the police, the educational system, and the political structure are evaluated. When an institutional goal, say, reducing murders is set by key authorities involved there are two [...]

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).