Posted on 07/21/2021 12:23:19 AM PDT by Olog-hai
… Fifty years ago this summer, President Richard Nixon declared a war on drugs. Today, with the U.S. mired in a deadly opioid epidemic that did not abate during the coronavirus pandemic’s worst days, it is questionable whether anyone won the war.
Yet the loser is clear: (b)lack and Latino Americans, their families and their communities. A key weapon of the war was the imposition of mandatory minimums in prison sentencing. Decades later those harsh penalties at the federal level and the accompanying changes at the state level led to an increase in the prison industrial complex that saw millions of people, primarily of color, locked up and shut out of the American dream. […]
The racial disparities reveal the uneven toll of the war on drugs. Following the passage of stiffer penalties for crack cocaine and other drugs, the (b)lack incarceration rate in America exploded from about 600 per 100,000 people in 1970 to 1,808 in 2000. In the same timespan, the rate for the Latino population grew from 208 per 100,000 people to 615, while the white incarceration rate grew from 103 per 100,000 people to 242. …
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If you don’t do the crime, you don’t do the time.
Yes, sentencing reform is always worth reviewing but today’s Soros bought Marxist DAs are making prosecutions a joke and creating more dead innocent victims of violence.
Just look at the young girls and boys gunned down in both targeted hits on someone they were with (i.e. parents), or stray bullets from gangbanger shootouts in the streets. ^, 9, 14 and 17 year old kids shot and killed in Chicago, Wash. D.C., NY City, etc. by black thugs, many of whom have been released from any serious punishments for their crimes.
I suggest that any DA who released a documented dangerous criminal back into society (with a reduced or no-bond), be held civilly and criminally responsible for any crimes these punks commit while awaiting for trial (usually their 3rd, 4th, 5th, etc).
Also, there should be a law aimed specifically at George Soros/organization and front groups, to prevent him from “buying” state and local DAs. Call it “DA tampering” and send his red ass to jail for the rest of his filthy rotten life.
White guys don’t do time....bullshit
WOD is an industry. Pays for retirements, family vacations, puts the kids through school...
I dont usually agree with you wardaddy, but when I do, I ususlly need to check and see how many drinks Ive had and how long have I been drinking. This time im sober and agree with you.
While I would dearly love to see actual justice done here on earth, I also realize that’s pretty idealistic.
However, God is keeping accounts and He WILL sort it out someday and all that blood will be required at the hands of those who perverted justice.
If only racist white guys would stop forcing angelic black guys to become drug addicts.
But....but......but what about Biden’s ;large role in that?
.....................crickets.
So were white people not imprisoned?
Abolish the welfare system. People who incapacitate themselves via alcohol and other drugs can face the consequences.
There is a quote from a Nixon administration official to the effect of them knowing that the WOD would be useful for targeting racial minorities, and that doing so was a specific intention of those enacting it.
Incarcerated for dealing or using. If it’s dealing then oh well but for small user quantities it should not be a prison sentence IMHO.
And millions of people of all colors including whites. What a disgusting headline.
And a couple of white ones too.
It’s called cause and effect.
Yeah. And no “white” Americans ever got prosecuted or jailed in the war on drugs.
Racists see everything in a prism of race.
The author mentions some reasonable arguments, but then strings them together in a loony way.
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