[1][2] His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Nation, The Appeal, USA Today, Vice News, and other media outlets.
[1] From 1990 to 1993, he served on the staff of the Coalition on Homelessness in San Francisco, where he directed civil rights policy for the organization.
In San Francisco, Mayor Art Agnos attempted to address homelessness with aggressive ticketing.
[1] In 2009, City of Disorder: How the Quality of Life Campaign Transformed New York Politics (NYU Press) was published.
In the book, Vitale argues that the United States should radically reconsider policing, rather than simply reforming it.
[12] As such, police forces have historically enforced inequality, suppressed workers, and micro-managed black and brown lives.