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On the Run (Paperback, UK ed.)
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On the Run (Paperback, UK ed.)
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Forty years in, the War on Drugs has done almost nothing to prevent
drugs from being sold or used, but it has nonetheless created a
little-known surveillance state in America's most disadvantaged
neighborhoods. Alice Goffman spent six years living in one such
neighborhood in Philadelphia, and her close observations and often
harrowing stories reveal the pernicious effects of this pervasive
policing. Goffman introduces us to an unforgettable cast of young
African American men who are caught up in this web of warrants and
surveillance - some of them small-time drug dealers, others just
ordinary guys dealing with limited choices. All find the web of
presumed criminality, built as it is on the very associations and
friendships that make up a life, nearly impossible to escape. While
Goffman does not deny the problems of the drug trade, and the
violence that often accompanies it, through her gripping accounts
of daily life in the forgotten neighborhoods of America's cities,
she makes it impossible for us to ignore the very real human costs
of our failed response - the blighting of entire neighborhoods, and
the needless sacrifice of whole generations.
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