Analysis Of Matt Tabbi s Book Report - 1350 Words

The purpose of this report is to apply the thoughts and issues discussed in The Divide to our organization in order to better help and understand why these changes will be important, and what steps we could consider taking to improve the issues in our organization. This report will be broken down into three parts. The first part will cover an overview of Matt Tabbi’s book. The second part will discuss my analysis of the issues. Finally the third part will be about the recommendations for future action along with the reasons supporting them. Part One: Matt illustrates the relationship between income inequality and the criminalization of people. Throughout the book, Matt recounts the stories and interviews on how poor people are constantly harassed, arrested, or imprisoned for minor crimes or if a crime has been committed at all. There is an assumption that â€Å"low-class people do low-class things† meaning that there’s racial profiling and that people who live in â€Å"poor neighborhoods† will doing things that break the law. One the gentleman Taibbi interview is a man named Andrew Brown. Andrew had a history but at one time he was arrested for â€Å"obstructing pedestrian traffic† because of history and his harassment with cops, he end up getting a summons and having to go to court. Andrew wanted to argue the ticket and not pay the $25 fee. He constantly has to say he not guilty and will not pay the fee, it is only when he finally gets to tell the judge that he had just gotten off