Contemporary capitalism entails a certain decomposition of the boundaries between the normal and the abnormal in a population threatened with permanent structural unemployment and thus potentially ‘anti-social’ to an intense degree.  With this in mind, we must study the feelings of disturbed and disordered black youth who are emasculated by police patrols in areas of great poverty if we are to understand why the police might shoot to kill them, but we must also try to understand what system of ideology, repression, and economics police officers are enforcing when they normalize potential criminal behaviour amongst youth in certain neighbourhoods and not others.