TPPM Watts: (6) Pure intentions?

[Paul Nightingale]

"The neighbourhood may be seething with social workers ..." etc.

In its opening paragraphs, the text has set up an opposition between the
particular (the opening description of the Deadwyler affair) and the
general (in paragraph 3's summary of the aftermath, individuals are,
relatively speaking, rendered anonymous).

This opposition corresponds to that between micro- and macrosociological
accounts. Note the way the "humanitarian establishment" is juxtaposed to
the everyday reality of life in Watts ("nothing much has changed"). It
is "[the] killing of Leonard Deadwyler [that] has once again brought it
all into sharp focus".