Posted on 04/22/2017 12:00:02 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
... In Los Angeles and virtually every city in North America, bicycle theft has almost become a crime without consequence, so widespread that it is treated less as a problem and more like one of the costs of urban life. Thieves can quickly cut locks on a target that serves as its own getaway vehicle, sell their ill-gotten goods to fencers for pennies on the dollar, and rest assured they will almost never be busted. Law enforcement officials, busy with other priorities, rarely commit to sustained campaigns to bust theft rings or even pursue arrests.
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Facts? Evidence?
My first bike was stolen the day I got it - ‘69 or ‘70. The police found it... at the train station 2 towns away. It was pretty mangled.
Well, it extends backward far beyond Obama’s years, but it has certainly been true the last eight years vis-à-vis voting rights cases against blacks. Eric Holder flatly pronounced he would not prosecute them.
Similarly, cases of racial bias committed against whites (which involved many instances of grievous injury). Holder was known to have open contempt for such and never prosecuted those either.
Prosecution of burglary, assault, thefts of every kind is a virtual revolving judicial door when it comes to blacks.
Liberals in government are determined to punish in perpetuity today’s and tomorrow’s whites for offenses they never committed against blacks. It is obvious. It is blatant. And it must and will end.
At the bottom of the system, focusing on street crime, things look different.
Taking drug offenses alone -- which account for a major part of the prison population -- blacks are more likely to be convicted and sent to prison for longer sentences.
Think about it a minute: do you think somebody charged with dealing drugs in Scarsdale or Greenwich is likely to get as strict a sentence as somebody charged in Brooklyn or the Bronx?
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