What's Different About Inmates in Los Angeles?

I wanted to see the ways in which conquest in the American West has shaped our policing practices. I study Los Angeles and the U.S. Mexico borderlands, give a new regional perspective on the story of mass incarceration. When you look at it from the perspective of the American West, you certainly have racial capitalism at play. However, there's another dynamic at work, and that dynamic has to do with the long history, the long arm of manifest destiny and conquest.