"QUIT BREAKING THE LAW, A**HOLE!!!" -- Jim Carrey, in "Liar Liar."
Posted on 04/19/2012 1:07:24 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
There is a problem here. Since the late 1960s....the United States has become a drug problem. Go and drug-test every guy you arrest for a year in any major urban area....the vast number (my humble opinion) will be over 80 percent failing a drug test. I won’t even say this is a racial issue anymore...you likely get the same numbers with every society.
I admit, the drug war is a failure. But the massive number of drug users in the American population....doesn’t measure up percentage-wise with what you have in France, Japan or Denmark. They don’t have mega-jails, because they just don’t have the same amount of crime going on.
There’s a problem in existence, but I doubt that we can ever get a handle on this.
The solution is simple - AG Holder could institute a “Fairness” quota system for prison residents.
Mr. Obama could pardon every black incarcerated in the United States as one of his last acts in office. I could see him doing it, too.
Michelle Alexander - another person making a living off of race.
Yes, when you incarcerate criminals, crime goes down. Also, 1+1=2.
I guess it has nothing to do with who commits the crime it is only about race?Sorry don’t believe it.
Seems like half the folks on this board want to lock up people for possession of a plant. Those folks are actually part of the problem, such as it is.
Prison should be solely for those who commit violent crimes or victimize others through theft, force or fraud.
“Caitlin Yoshiko Kandil” i.e. “Moron”
Do the crime, serve the time. Justice should be color blind. BTW, there is no such thing as a “love crime”, so every crime is a “hate crime”. The burgeoning prison population IS a problem - what this country needs is a penal colony like Devil’s Island.
The obvious solution to this horrific problem (and I’m going to waive my usual exorbitant consultant’s fee for this one! You’re welcome!) is for “poor people of color” to STOP DOING SO DAMN MANY CRIMES!
Honestly, how hard is that to figure out??!?
Speaking of math, from the story:
In just 30 years, between 1980 and 2000...
Is it me, or is that 20 years?
CA....
“Seems like half the folks on this board want to lock up people for possession of a plant.”
Never mind the drug, it is the crime committed to obtain the drug or the crime committed under influence of the drug that should be prosecuted.
I don't think that the article author wants to legalize drugs. If all sorts of drugs were available in the local liquor store under the same conditions as buying alcohol, he would be running around screaming about "our young men being destroyed by the easy availability of heroin and cocaine!"
No, what he wants is for the drug dealers to be able to continue their occupations, just with police no longer hassling them for it.
Maybe, if African-Americans stopped breaking the law, there wouldn’t be so many of them in prison.
Just a thought.
How about we look back at government policies dating back to the '60's that destroyed the black family unit. If you're looking for the first cause of the epidemic of crime in certain racial groups, let's start there.
If this is a matter of racism, this it should be pretty easy to confirm or rebut. Check the percentage of black Caribbean and African immigrants imprisoned, compared to that of the native black population. I’m going to wager that it isn’t anywhere near as high.
"QUIT BREAKING THE LAW, A**HOLE!!!" -- Jim Carrey, in "Liar Liar."
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