"Potential criminal" is a term so vague as to be useless, because its boundaries are overwhelming shaped to oppress minorities and the poor. Consider criminali

"Potential criminal" is a term so vague as to be useless, because its boundaries are overwhelming shaped to oppress minorities and the poor. Consider criminalization of loitering and its effects on poor people, criminalization of "gang association" (even when in practice it can mean "cousin of a gang member" or "babysat the child of a gang member's sister"), and the soft-touch handling of Oxycontin addicts while crack cocaine users get life in prison.