In 1993, East New York experienced a tragic peak in homicide rates, highlighting its status as a crime hotspot amidst a wider urban violence crisis. Journalist Stacy Horn's book, "The Killing Fields of East New York," critiques the misattribution of this violence to the community's residents, instead revealing how systemic white-collar criminal conspiracies devastated the affordable housing market. She argues that laws intended to protect low-income families inadvertently facilitated financial exploitation that led to East New York's decline, shifting the narrative away from criminality to systemic injustice.
The concept of 'broken windows' policing, applied during the Giuliani administration, falsely blamed East New York's crime on its predominantly Black and Puerto Rican population.
Stacy Horn's book reveals that the true culprits of East New York's demise were systemic issues rooted in white-collar crime rather than street crime.
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