A review by shoba
Brooklyn Crime Novel by Jonathan Lethem

3.0

Police just an epiphenomenon of a city that’s written off this whole zone…This writing off frees the white boys to write cops off in turn….The cops drive off…. 
Most, but not all, of the white kids can summon, when needed, the slightest deference.
Not one of the Black kids can summon, when needed, white skin. 
So, do the Black boys of Dean Street carry a different sense? If so, it is a thing maintained, during collective street play, in silence within their bodies.