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Paul said that in his vision for America, "Any law that disproportionately incarcerates people of color is repealed."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.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
What about white collar crime? Overwhelmingly committed by whites, so do they get off as well?
A really immensely stupid remark, and I like him, and I like the concept of reaching out to non-R voters, but come on, do it smartly. There are so many issues to use for that SCHOOL CHOICE being numero uno, but this, it makes my hair hurt.
GO WALKER!!!!
OK, you actually noted the ONE example where this might be true. Maybe YOU should run for Pres!
He really thinks pandering like he is will have blacks come to his side against a Dem.
No wonder he wants drugs legal, he’s smoking much of the products out there.
Actually it was black lawmakers in the 80s during the crack epidemic who wanted the penalties to be stiffer for crack use in order to slow the destruction of black neighborhoods.
Flash forward to Emperor Zero's day and those same laws are racist. And so, federal drug laws were changed to remove the disparity.
the same left which wanted no nukes for anyone in the 80’s under CND and now they are helping Iran of all nations to get one.
Nope. Not voting for him.
More race baiting. Just what we need.
race baiting and pandering from Pail is not what we need from anyone and it shows how pathetic he has become.
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