The SPLC and others are seeking to reform a wasteful money bail system that discriminates against the poor. But earlier efforts fell victim to tough-on-crime policies that emerged in the mid-1960s.

Less than 48 hours after election day, Kyle Chester and Corey Hurley found a note taped to their front door. Scrawled on a piece of notebook paper, someone had written: “TRUMP is our president now! Get out of our neighborhood now faggots!”