229 Quotes by Chris Hayes

Yet in the modern vocabulary of policing theory, “broken windows” has become shorthand for the polar opposite: aggressive, community-antagonistic, clean-’em-up vigilantism. The problem with “community policing,” then and now, is that so often the cops being called to enforce community norms are not part of the community. And.

Depending on who you are, the sight of an officer can produce either a warm sense of safety and contentment or a plummeting feeling of terror. I’ve.

I can cite a chapter and verse of literature at the times saying Italians don’t speak our language, these folks coming from other places – it sounds identical to what you are saying about Muslims now. It really does.

Inequality and hierarchy are natural, but that doesn’t mean they are right, that doesn’t mean there is isn’t a productive tension between those forces and the forces of equality.

Whiteness is nonexistent, yet it confers enormous benefits. Blackness is a conjured fiction, yet it is so real it can kill.

But city after city has experienced versions of the same thing: drops in crime, spikes in real estate prices, and a process of gentrification that has pushed up rents for poor and working-class people, creating a nationwide affordability crisis. In 1984 poor Americans spent 35 percent of their income on rent. By 2014 that was 41 percent, with fully half of renters below the poverty line spending most of their total income to keep a roof over their head.

David Roberts, who is a writer at Vox who I like, had a line about the voter – your voters weren’t locked in the room with you, Republican establishment. You were locked in the room with them.

I think politically there is less juice to be squeezed out of that orange in the Democratic side. I mean, my feeling is your median Democratic voter, they’re angry at the banks or they’re not psyched about companies that outsource and things like that.

Sarah Palin, suggesting her son’s arrest on domestic violence charges was a result of post-traumatic stress disorder and partially due to President Obama’s lack of respect for men and women in uniform.