Posted on 08/28/2015 4:15:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
At a time when crime rates are the lowest they have been in decades....
As night follows day, crime rates are lower because we police more actively.
The collateral consequences of this policy misadventure are most severe in communities of color. Half of black males in the U.S. and 44 percent of Latino males are arrested at least once by the time they are 23.
One in every 3 black males born today can expect to go to prison (pdf) at some point in their lives, compared with 1 in every 6 Latino males and 1 in every 17 white males. This means that the darker your skin, the more likely it is that your arrest will result in jail time. We recently heard about the estimated 1.5 million black men who are missing from society as a result of death and incarceration.
Maybe this is why...
Stop being stupid...get a good education. Make that your #1 goal in life. Be better than the other guy. Stop acting like a 'hoodrat, dress and act like the prevailing culture. Just maybe, if you tried to assimilate into the prevailing culture you would stop being harassed for being in the places where people don't want the crime and the debased culture that is the "black experience" in the US.
Ummmm....don’t steal sh1t?
In the 60’s, I had two cops beat me pretty good with a night stick and a flashlight with a few kicks thrown in for good measure. I had done nothing wrong, but I’d guess I probably wouldn’t have gotten mugged if I hadn’t been such a smart-ass. And I’m lily white.
Don’t disrespect your betters.
Springsteen fans, born to run
Leave it to a dishonest leftist black to make excuses for evil criminal behavior.
These folks crave anarchy and love disorder. All you have to do is view their “hoods” to see that it’s exactly what they want. If the cops left their neighborhoods to rot (and I hope the cops do real soon), they’ll still complain about “crime” and blame them for their problems.
You can’t win with these losers.
that’s what i think
Once again blacks refuse to take responsibility for their stupid decisions. In the article the main excuse is the fear of getting an arrest record. Usually if you havent committed a crime you dont get arrested, but getting nervous and running from the cops can get you a felony. How stupid do you have to be to make that decision?
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“In the article the main excuse is the fear of getting an arrest record. Usually if you havent committed a crime you dont get arrested, but getting nervous and running from the cops can get you a felony. How stupid do you have to be to make that decision?”
Lets take that a step further, now you are running from the cop and he catches up with you. Now you are definitely getting arrested if can subdue you so you fight like heck. That is resisting arrest and assaulting an officer (definitely a felony). You are really panicked because you are going to jail if he takes you in so you grab for his gun. Thats the kind of thinking that gets “innocent” “unarmed” blacks get killed or in jail.
Guilt!
After working 25 years on a fire department in a municipality known for crime problems... I came into contact with police, criminals and crime victims daily. The runners get away much if not most of the time. Obviously it has risks, but I am not sure that it is “stupid” to run from the police.
Drugs?
“Obviously it has risks, but I am not sure that it is stupid to run from the police.”
What if you haven’t committed a crime?
“What if you havent committed a crime?”
Haven’t you heard of “Black and White Fever”?
Ex-Lax?
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