Police unions, in communities of color, reflect the mindset of their historic roots and role on slave plantations: they are overseers, not peacekeepers: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-flint-taylor/blood-on-their-hands-the-_b_6475348.html

Felon disenfranchisement is the most egregious form of voter suppression: http://www.brennancenter.org/analysis/voter-suppression-how-bad-pretty-bad

Mass incarceration must be dismantled as it presently exist and cutoff where it is injected in the legislative process. Racial impact statements must be required for all criminal legislation: http://www.timesunion.com/news/politics/article/1st-racial-impact-law-seen-as-having-modest-6030286.php?cmpid=email-mobile