Governing Through Crime Or Governing By Race

An immpresive post at Governing through Crime that Michael at CORR SENT
points us to that discusses the war on the poor and racial disparity.

Does America accept the moral necessity of a war on crime despite its clear tendency to reinforce almost every aspect of racialized disadvantage and disparity, or is that war on crime a barely disguised strategy to maintain a system of unequal citizenship on the basis of race?