They called it a "lost generation." This book proves it was an engineered product**.**

The urban crisis is not a moral failure. It is a mathematical trap, and THE 27X FACTOR provides the receipts.

Author Karl Glass delivers a forensic examination of causation, revealing the "Engineered Architecture" of the American ghetto. This is not theory; it is a blueprint. The stats are the dimensions of the cage: the 27X homicide multiplier, the 10:1 racial wealth gap, and the 60% school-to-prison pipeline.

Moving from Indianapolis to the national stage, Glass exposes the 7 Pillars of the trap, including:

• Pillar 1: The historical "Man-in-the-House" policy that designed the "fatherless family."
• Pillar 2: The $23 billion education funding gap that serves as the pipeline's accelerator.
• Pillar 7: The "Traffickers"?the multi-billion dollar profit motive behind the for-profit bail and private prison industries. This book proves the trap is not history. With evidence from 2025 DOJ settlements for modern-day redlining and the 2025 political rollbacks of bail reform, Glass shows how the machine is still being actively protected.

THE 27X FACTOR is the "smoking gun" of American social policy. It dismantles the "Scared Straight!" fallacy, reveals the "biological debt" of "Weathering" that the trap leaves on the YN's very DNA, and reframes hope as the ultimate act of revolution.