Crime tends to find Black people; or, to put it another way, the police find Black people and in doing so find crime. Black people are always out of place, always suspect, always potentially up to no good. It is the job of police to be on the lookout for trouble, and because of the ideas and stereotypes many police have about Black people, we tend to be the trouble they are looking for. I am not suggesting that Black people don't transgress or break the law; I am rather pointing out a deeper problem. Black transgression is assumed and sought out and expected. What constitutes crime, and how criminality is assessed by those "trained" to find it, is most often centered on Black people. These assumptions lead Black people to have encounters with police thar lead to further entanglements with the carceral system. Sometimes those encounters result in death at the hands of the police, and Black communities respond with protests, resulting in further entanglements. It's an impossible grim-go-round, and abolition is increasingly understood by many in the Black community as the only way we can ever get off of it.

— On Property by Rinaldo Walcott (Page 81)