“How do we ensure…that the police do not become the agents of neighborhood bigotry?” they wrote. In the end, Kelling and Wilson weren’t sure. Their conclusion was that they just had to hope it wouldn’t turn out that way.
Hope. Is. Not. A. Strategy. Disturbing that the fates of so many people of color when it came to their interactions with police boiled down to the hope that cops wouldn’t be neighborhood racism valets (despite previous evidence to the contrary).
