Posted on 06/15/2024 10:41:10 PM PDT by ransomnote
Excerpting a section below the start of the article:
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"That closure proved short-lived. In April 2023, a superior court judge in Contra Costa County threw out the life-without-parole sentences previously imposed on the Aspen Way murder defendants, on the ground that the sentencing of black gang members for gang murder in Contra Costa County had historically been “systemically biased.” The defendants did not claim that the legal process against them was unfair. Nevertheless, because allegedly race-based sentencing disparities had occurred in the past in Contra Costa County, the life-without-parole sentences of the Aspen Way killers Eric Windom, Terryonn Pugh, Keyshawn McGee, and Allen Trent were now invalid.
California is about to demonstrate what a world constructed from the tenets of critical race studies looks like. The sentencing reversal in California v. Windom is the result of a recent law that will likely bring the state’s criminal-justice system to its knees. The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.
The Racial Justice Act operationalizes the proposition that every aspect of the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks. But according to the act’s legislative authors, it’s too hard to prove such bias in the case of individual arrests and prosecutions. Therefore, the act does away with the concept of individual fault and individual proof. From now on, statistics about past convictions are sufficient to invalidate a present trial or sentence."
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Unless California voters reverse the Racial Justice Act, the state is about to become more violent and the promise of equal justice under the law less credible.
Top Photo: A study by a California prosecutor found that black gang members received stiffer penalties than nonblacks—not because of racial discrimination but because they committed more heinous crimes.
I found the whole article interesting- it seems like it may be the leading edge of the Communist plot to do away with the legal system and replace it with the whim of the Regime.
like the courts aren’t clogged enough as it is...
I conclude white prison inmates in California will have no hope of release while VIOLENT felons of color will be turned loose onto the streets.
Bump...
That’s exactly what it is. Discredit the system, so you can suggest your own.
Time and time and time again we see race has everything to do with behavior. I have no sympathy for the evolution denying boomers who at the moment a black thug is shoving a knife in his throat is wondering to himself “but this black gentleman went to church and voted Republican! How can this be happening?!”
This is 70s era policy redux. Same kinds of judges and prosecutors. Difference is that murder rates are now lower, thanks to improved major trauma center techniques refined by the lessons of Vietnam. There are people who earnestly believe blacks aren’t more crime-prone, that the system is stacked against them. The effect of these soft-on-crime policies will likely be an increase in crime and a reversion to pre-reform policies. People currently satisfied with homicide rates 1/4 of the 90s-era crack cocaine peak will change their minds when murders surge towards the old highs. That’s how Giuliani became the first tough-on-crime mayor in many decades - enough voter became fed up with 2000+ murders a year to vote for change. For perspective, in 2023, that number was 386.
Your post had some good points and historical background, nice to see the occasional person here throw actual facts and full context in a post
animals robbing and tearing up stores and restaurants are given day passes and little old Christian people put in prison for peacefully demonstrating against abortion....
anarcho tyranny....
I think we will also see a bigger gang war and we'll see the rise of vigilantism....
God help us all....
[Your post had some good points and historical background, nice to see the occasional person here throw actual facts and full context in a post]
What’s unusual is CA tying the hands of local officials in white suburbs with statewide get out-of-jail-free laws for black criminals. When crime rates approach previous peaks, suburbanites will swing back towards the GOP. Black criminals who used to avoid white areas in CA for fear of tough-on-crime local Democrat DAs will now increasingly target them because the pickings in wealthy areas are probably richer, from cars on down. As crime strikes close to home, limo liberals will shift towards pols who promise to use the tools at hand to confine rather than coddle criminals.
> California’s 2020 Racial Justice Act
The name alone sounds unconstitutional.
Heather MacDonald is an excellent analyst and writer. Thx for posting this.
Newspeak.
Most Whites have no idea what is in store. If Trump loses, it will be open season on Whites.
Yes she is.
Here is a great article by her a few years ago, along with a bunch of links to her writings on crime in the linked post within the thread.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3770841/posts?page=7#7
You mean, of course, if Trump is cheated out of an overwhelming election again?
The feebs are spreading disinformation that violent crime is way down. One might say they’re primate-deniers.
Hasn’t it been open season on whites for quite some time? It will probably get worse.
Yep. Do this and vigilante justice will rise again. The reason for modern police and justice system was to do away with vigilantes. Its will happen again. This is why we have the 2nd amendment, to remain a free state.
Stay/Get in shape...go to the range...be alert.
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