crime rates are more indicative of policing practices than the actual number of illegal acts taking place #whogetspunishedandwhy @JennaLoyd
— Ethnic Studies 181AC (@PIC_Abolition) May 9, 2014

Jenna Loyd's The Fire Next Time, an analysis of several instances of racial violence in America, provides a hopeful outlook of how another instance may be reacted to in the future. She also observes how crime statistics are self-proving; a community is violent if it's crime rate is high, but the presence of advanced policing tactics makes the crime rate high. This observation is essential to understanding current and future prison demographics and sentencing policy.