Posted on 04/07/2015 11:09:26 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
We knew Rand Paul had a pretty deep commitment to ending mass incarceration. But his speech announcing a 2016 run for president might have promised something more radical than even he would want: legalizing every type of crime, including murder and assault.
Paul said that in his vision for America, "Any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed." The problem is that that describes pretty much every law that incarcerates a lot of people in America — the nonviolent drug offenses that Paul often rails against, sure, but also violent crimes and property crimes.
The majority of people in prison in the US are doing time in state prisons, and most of them have been convicted of violent crimes. But across every single category of crime that the Bureau of Justice Statistics publishes data for, non-Hispanic whites make up a smaller percentage of the prison population than they do of the nation at large.
Just take a glance at this chart. The bar at left shows the percentage of non-Hispanic white Americans: 62.6 percent. None of the other bars across the chart for white prisoners come close to that high.
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If the answer is Rand Paul, then the question is stupid.
Rand Paul is not eady for prime time.
I heard this at lunch and lost my appetite. Can he really be that dumb?
Repeal laws that imprison criminals! Cuz they’re racist. or something.
Add him to my list of GOP candidates that I would vote Libertarian rather than supporting.
That is a pretty dumb thing to say
That is the first big notice of difference...Class and Character, like them both but one more than the other...so we will continue to support TED CRUZ...
There will be many for us to chose from, but the First impressed me most at this point...will stick by him..
Poor dumb Democrats, chose Hillary and we plan to trash her with BENGHAZI MURDERS, and the mess she made of the emails, and let us not forget the eight years of her accused rapist husband.
Rand Paul, status-signaling to young hipsters for votes. Barf.
When people speak the truth and from the heart, they don’t need a teleprompter.
“That is a pretty dumb thing to say’
Even for Rand Paul. He’s doubling down on his Ferguson MO remarks.
I would argue it’s beyond dumb. It’s outright nonsensical. I honestly don’t know who wrote his speech, but he really needs to fire that person.
i think taking on the corrections industry is a good one. There are TONS of money being made on incarceration.
Rand Paul trying to think that blacks will come out in their millions and vote for him.
Yes he is that delusional and will say anything what he needs to say to get this nomination.
He is desperate to garner votes. The man is an idiot .
The answer is to incarcerate 3 white people for muder for every black. We can determine who to incarcerate by lottery using draft numbers.
AH, okay Rand, I think I’ve seen enough, kthx.
Black males aged 15-34 are only 3% of the total US population.
2012 FBI Statistics:
54.9% of all Robberies
49.4% of all Murders
34.1% of all Aggravated Assaults
32.5% of all Forcible Rapes
When does he realize he’s caught himself in his zipper?
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