Posted on 12/27/2004 6:18:16 PM PST by Coleus
In a decision that exposed one of the raw nerves of the criminal justice system, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously ruled yesterday that a juror who cannot put aside personal feelings of racial identification with a defendant must be dismissed.
Emphatically declaring that race has no place in the jury room, the high court ruled a trial judge was correct in dismissing a juror who said that, as a black woman with children of her own, she could not "see another young black man going to jail for something really stupid." As a result, Leardee Jenkins, 20, of Franklin Township in Somerset County is entitled to a new trial on his conviction for robbing a Foot Locker shoe store in the township in 2001, when he was 17. He was tried as an adult and sentenced to 12 years in state prison with no chance of parole for 10 years and two months. According to the court ruling, evidence at Jenkins' trial showed he held a knife to the stomach of a store employee while a friend threatened the shift manager with a knife and demanded she open the cash register. Witnesses testified the manager knocked over a display, causing a commotion that allowed other patrons to run out of the store while Jenkins and his friend fled, empty-handed. The jury that heard the case against Jenkins had deliberated for about an hour when the foreperson sent a note to the judge saying one juror "has the emotions to affect judgment." The judge then questioned the juror, identified only as No. 9, and she said that as "a black woman" with children the same age as Jenkins, "I just can't make a decision to put him in jail."
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Maybe if he had held her at knife-point she would see things differently.
When the OJ Simpson jury was being chosen, I happened to be hospitalized. At some point during the early stages of the trial, an elderly, black nurse's assistant entered my hospital room, looked up at the TV screen and said, "I could never convict a black person."
Isn't most crime committed by blacks perpetrated against other blacks? If so, then jury nullification makes even less sense.
Anyone have statistics on which race commits the most crime against whites?
here is something i took off the net no link at this time.
High Numbers of Black on White Crime
Approximately 34 million acts were committed in the U.S. in 1992--about 94,000 crimes daily. This is a Justice Department estimate. We don't know the exact number, because many, if not most, crimes are not reported. We do know, however, that the national crime rate-crimes per capita-has tripled over the past 30 years, and at least 71 percent of all violent crimes involve some kind of economic loss.
Distorted Statistics Prior to 1986, Hispanics were classified as a distinct and separate racial group. Not anymore. The FBI and U.S. Census Bureau no longer distinguish between Hispanics (who are actually Spanish speaking Indians for the most part) and Whites; their crimes are lumped together in one ethnic pot. The 22,354,059 Hispanics living in the U.S. do not exist, at least not in the ethnic sense when it comes to the FBI compiling criminal statistics for mainstream and news organizations. Included by the FBI as "WHITES" is not only Hispanics, but also West Asians, Jews, Middle Easterners, North Africans, Iranians, Iraquis, Libyans, Palestinians, and refugees from the former Soviet Union. The question that immediately comes to mind is: "Why would the FBI and the U.S. Census Bureau classify persons of Hispanic origin as being white?" The answer might surprise you. The FBI and the U.S. Census Bureau, along with mainstream media purposely distort criminal statistics and conveniently classify Mexican-Americans as white because they do not want the American public to know the truth--that Blacks are responsible for committing the vast majority of crimes here in the United States. For example, in 1993, there were 20,343 Americans murdered: Blacks, who compromise 12 percent of the U.S. population, committed 11,686 or a whopping 58 percent of those murders. The black murder rate was 38.8 per 100,000. Based on their murder rate in 1986, Hispanics committed an estimated 2,242 murders in 1993. This is 10.7 per 100,000. 76 percent of the U.S. is White (European-American) and they committed only 29.5 percent of the murders. On the other hand, Black and Hispanic minorities combined constitute 21 percent of the population, yet they committed a staggering 68.7 percent of the murders in the U.S. during 1993. This means, on a per capita basis, a Black person is 12.3 times as likely to commit murder as a White person. Since this information is not deemed "politically correct" and would perhaps offend the black segment of society, it is offset by falsely inflating the per capita basis for whites by backhandedly including Hispanics and other ethnic groups.
Here are some more shocking statistics:
More than 1,600 Whites are murdered by Blacks each year.
Blacks murder Whites at 18 times the rate Whites murder Blacks.
About 1 million Whites were murdered, robbed, assaulted, or raped by Blacks in 1992.
In the last 30 years, 170 million violent and nonviolent crimes were committed by Blacks against Whites in the U.S.
Blacks under 18 are more than 12 times more likely to be arrested for murder than Whites the same age.
Some 90% of the victims of race crimes are Whites.
Blacks commit 7.5 times more violent interracial crimes than Whites, although they comprise only one-seventh of the White population.
On a per-capita basis, blacks commit 50 times more violent crimes than Whites.
Some 27 million nonviolent crimes were committed in the U.S. in 1992 alone. 31% of the robberies involved Black offenders and White victims; only 2% involved White offenders and Black victims.
1.3 million of the 6.6 million violent crimes committed in the U.S. each year are interracial.
Between 1964 and 1994, more than 45,000 people were killed in interracial murders in the U.S., compared to 58,000 Americans killed in Vietnam and 38,000 killed in Korea.
The above stats were collected by an Australian reporter, Neil Sheehan, who dug out half-concealed U.S. crime figures for an article in the Sydney Morning Herald (May 2, 1995). The contents of his article, he commented, could not possibly be published or discussed in the U.S. mainstream media. One wonders how many Whites have to be killed by Blacks before the N.Y. Times and Dan Rather break the conspiratorial silence about the number of White casualties in the guerrilla war being waged against them by Blacks. Paved With Good Intentions, a book by Jared Taylor, also studies crime statistics by race. It must be stressed that Blacks make up only 12% of the population according to the 1990 U.S. census (and Black males about 6%), but they commit a vastly disproportionate number of violent crime. Mr. Taylor reveals: 1) 58% of all arrests for weapons violations are Blacks. 2) 46% of all arrests for violent crimes are Blacks. 3) 73% of all "justified self-defense" killings are committed by Blacks. 4) 60.5% of all Blacks are armed with some type of weapon at all times. 5) 98% of all youths arrested for gun fights in Atlanta are Blacks.
In 1989, the FBI reported the following:
A) Blacks commit 8 times more assaults than Whites. B) Blacks commit 9 times more rapes than Whites. C) Blacks commit 14 times more murders than Whites. D) Blacks commit 19 times more armed robberies. E) Black neighborhoods are 35 times more violent than White neighborhoods. F) There were 629,000 interracial attacks committed in 1985 (the last year the FBI "chose" to report this information). Some nine out of every ten were committed by Blacks against Whites. G. Black males (6% of the population) make up 46% of the nation's prison population.
It can be seen that in only one category of crimes, driving under the influence, are Blacks actually underrepresented, and even this is only by one percent. Perhaps this statistic can best be explained by the fact that Blacks own fewer cars than do Whites percentage-wise. It can further be seen that overall, Blacks are committing 2 1/2 times the amount of crimes percentage-wise as their population in America and as far as violent crimes are concerned, they are committing almost four times as much as their population percentage-wise. As far as murders go, Blacks are committing almost five times as many as their population percentage-wise. Why isn't this ever reported on the news? Furthermore, it must be pointed out once again that many crimes go unsolved or are unreported, particularly those involving random acts. Therefore, the number of crimes that Blacks and Hispanics are committing may actually be much higher.
The reason these statistics are never reported is because they are not true. The article you posted is from the National Association for the Advancement of White People . Link:http://www.naawp.com/crime_stats.htm
They claim they are using gov. statistics but they are not .
If you want to see actual government statistics go here:
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/00cius.htm and click the "Victim/Offender relationship, by race and sex, 2000" link.
(you'll need excel viewer.)
You'll see that of the 3352 whites killed in 2000, 2860 were killed by whites, 417 by blacks. 2972 black killed, 2723 were killed by blacks, 178 white.
I guess If the stats are from a white they can't be true.
the truth is somewhere between these 2 sites
no, but if the stats are made up out of thin air, then they can't be true. And if the stats are provided by an organization with an agenda then they are, at the very least, suspect. You know this, which is why you didn't post a link to the site.
And to wiseone, how can the truth be somewhere between the two site? The NAAWP claims that their statistics are from the FBI site.
I wonder what motivates such rationalization.
Don't post things if you can't provide a link. Why don't you provide a link so we can read for ourselves?
Doing donuts in the parking lot with a new car is stupid; buying/selling pot is a petty (non-) offense.
Armed robbery is a malicious, often violent crime, and this young man should be locked up for a few years as punishment.
In the 60's, we had racist, anti-black juries in the South like those which aquitted Byron De La Beckwith for his murder of Medgar Evers.
In the 90's in California, we had racist, anti-white jurors like the ones who aquitted O.J. Simpson when he murdered his ex-wife and Ron Goldman. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Both of these types rot away at what should be our ideal as a society-- a truly colorblind legal system.
The dismissed juror in question here belonged to the "O.J." style of bias, and she gets no sympathy from me.
I guess you don't want people to know where you get your 'facts' from then you don't post the web page. How is it that people like John Perazzo writes a whole book about this subject but manages not to refer to the NAAWPs website hmmmm? Your days are numbered newbie.
The statistic that blacks commit more crimes against whites than whites do against blacks is not really relevant to the discussion. Blacks commit more crimes in general; that's a fact and I'm not debating this. But a poster asked for statisics about which race commits more crimes against whites and Ibedd posted made-up statistics and distorted facts to support an untrue conclusion.
WHITES commit more crimes against other whites than blacks do. BLACKS commit more crimes against other blacks than whites do.
In regards to the article you linked, here is a link to the mentioned study :http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/cv01.pdf . Unfortunately, the statitistics aren't broken down by the race of the perpetrator, but we do see that the crime that occurs most often is robbery. We also see that when the crimes are broken down by income group (PAGE 13), the crime rates increases in DIRECT PROPORTION to income, with the notable exception of the very lowest earners. This would indicate that financial status was more of an issue than race.
And just to to be sure, while blacks may commit the majority of interracial crime, the majority of crimes detemined to be motivated by race are committed by white men. This link from the Department of Justice, states that White men are responsible for 40% of all race based crimes while blacks are responsible for 20%. It further concludes that White men are responsible for 62% of SERIOUS race based crimes, blacks for 20%;
LINK:http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/pdf/hcrn99.pdf
Here is a link to DOJ murder statistics. http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/homicide/race.htm Freepers are Please give me a break. Freepers are aware how skewed hate crime statistics are. In the words of Jim Traficant "Beam me up, Mr. Scotty!" Black on white murder is rarely investigated as a hate crime while spray painting racist graffiti on the property of a minority is.
isn't that purely a SUBJECTIVE accessment?...
we all know of cases where a black person has done a greivous crime against a white person, has even said the magic "hate" words, and yet the looney prosecutor does not prosecute for hate crimes, even though the evidence is right there.....
case in point...the Witchita Ks brothers who attacked, tortured, ridiculed , raped, and then murdered several white people .....
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