The interesting thing is that TV coverage has shown a lot of French (white) citizens being interviewed in the banlieues and saying that it is obvious that the police only stop (to control ids) black or Arab kids, often several times a day. You have patterns of institutionalised humiliation that are shameful. Isolated policemen are targetted, and get scared, so they only go into the cités in force, thus not helping dialogue... it's a vicious circle. The police de proximité was seen as a way to break this, and to some extent it did, but as we know, prevention and dissuasion are not "manly" and tough, and that was dumped by the right.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes