Victor Ray is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
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Victor Ray is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
Stop-and-frisk and broken-windows policing have ravaged black communities, while failing to make cities any safer.
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