Matt Taibbi and Hawaii Five 0
I am reading Matt Taibbi’s book The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap. It makes some hard hitting points about changes in our nation’s law enforcement system and policing agencies resulting from the Obama administration’s determination that some banking institutions are too big to fail and therefore too big to police. I think Taibbi accurately makes the point that the acceptance of criminal or quasi-criminal behavior by banks has freed up policing agencies to watch over the rest of us, i.e. the 99%, more. And they are. In the book’s introduction Taibbi identifies three aspects of 21st century America. They are: Poverty goes up. Crime goes down. Prison population doubles.