Posted on 03/05/2017 9:46:43 AM PST by artichokegrower
In a courtroom in San Francisco’s Hall of Justice, 102 prospective jurors squeezed into worn wooden seats, taking care to avoid the broken ones. They represented the mix of ages, races, sexual orientations and income levels that typifies their melting-pot city.
But another reflection of San Francisco stood out: Only four were black.
This pool, assembled last month, wasn’t unusual. The shrinking of the African American population in big cities like San Francisco — which saw a decline from 12.7 percent to 5.7 percent between 1980 and 2015 — is prompting growing concern that black defendants are being denied their right to a trial in front of a jury of peers.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfchronicle.com ...
39% - People booked into San Francisco County jail who were black.
Interesting statistic that the article unintentionally exposed.
Going to laugh when blacks end up getting called more frequently for jury duty to ensure “jury of peers”.
39% - People booked into San Francisco County jail who were black.
Sounds like an incredibly racist city.
Well, if you leftist racists would stop assuming you have to share a skin color with someone to be their peer, then....
White people can’t be peers to black people?
That’s kind of racist.
Then this will be considered racist too
Heh heh heh... Good point.
I’ve found the odds swing in your direction when you don’t commit crimes.
What do you want to bet the crimes this 5.7/39% committed, weren’t on their the peers this article focuses on?
Perhaps they’re lucky not to be judged by their peers.
When did color enter into the equation?
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But . . . but . . . Trump was a RACIST when he said the ethnicity of an Hispanic judge might influence his ruling. Are these black people saying that a WHITE jury cannot follow the law? Are these blacks being RACIST?
“Peer” does NOT include skin color.
The blacks were priced out of being able to live in SF. That the liberal way.
Fewer blacks, but they make it up in queers.
Yup
“An ACLU study of a sampling of Alameda County jury pools, conducted in 2010, found that African Americans represented 18 percent of the jury-eligible population but accounted for 8 percent of those who showed up. Latinos made up 12 percent of the population and 8 percent of the jury pools.”
Kudos to Bay Area white people. Responsibly doing their civic duty and making up at least 90% of the jury pools.
My greatest fear is to be tried by twelve people who were not smart enough to get out of jury duty!
8^)
its like the SCM's crocodile tears about baseball .....there's not enough blacks playing...
they just want blacks to be the dominant color even though they are a 13% minority...
Lilly whites. San Francisco used to have a larger black population, but they were driven across the bridge to Oakland.
Peer: a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status.
Race is not mentioned, but then again the dictionary was written by whitey and it’s probably considered a racist document.
Two jobs ago, my old boss was black. VERY nice guy; was raised right; was the head of the IT dept for a telecom. Anyway, he works and, as far as I know, still lives in a small-medium upstate NY city. EVERY.SINGLE.TIME he was picked for jury duty. It COULD have been his full time job; he actually had to turn it down because he kept getting selected repeatedly and I think there’s a limit to how often you can server.
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