Those areas are everywhere; they’re only selectively enforced in neighborhoods of color. White people don’t smoke weed, for instance? The huge rush of white folks into “legal” weed business suggests that’s not the case. But how many teenage boys in the suburbs are harassed and arrested and need to be bailed out? Imagine if all white people were stopped when they’re out in their neighborhood and actually had all those “petty” crimes enforced. (1) the policy would change overnight and (2) the arrest rate and mistrust of police would skyrocket.
