Gym Shoes, Cell Phones, Flash Mob Robberies…and Now, Hair: The Latest Black Crime Wave
The demand for straight hair among black people has reached such epidemic proportions that the latest crime form to emerge from that community is theft of human hair from “black beauty shops.” The interesting—and inevitable—trend has been highlighted with the release of a police video of a hair theft raid on a “black beauty shop” in Morgan Park, south Chicago, in an attempt to apprehend the human hair robbers. The surveillance video shows the two…