No.
The majority by ethnic groups committing the crimes are the blacks, closely followed by the latinos.
You coddle criminals, and they propogate like mice.
School Vouchers, and letting black people CHOOSE the school to send their kids would be a good start..
There, fixed it.
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“Prison sentences for black men tend to be almost 20 percent longer than prison sentences for white men who commit similar crimes.”
The crime itself is only one predictor of sentencing. Another factor is is the person’s criminal history. I venture to say, criminals convicted of violent crimes with similiar criminal arrest histories serve virtually the same time. This is just another attempt to cherry pick a particular stat and use it to convey a misleading point.
And rightly so.
This is not a matter of race, it is a matter of culture. And there is no law against bias toward a threatening culture.
It’s a legal system, not a justice system.
I do not think that's possible. Maybe within the same year but even that would be a stretch. Certainly not within the same, say, week or month. Also, less than 2% of Blacks use cocaine???
If illicit drug use was the same, drug dealers would locate in affluent suburban neighborhoods -- more available money there for profit and inventory. Plus they are much safer than Black neighborhoods! Gov't -- massage the statistics, until they produce the desired PC result.
"We're from the gov't. Tell us if you use illegal drugs." Odds are that whites are more likely to answer in the affirmative (to be "cool") and Blacks less (fear of "The Man"). GI=Go.
It doesn’t appear that any of the responders to this post actually read the entire article....
So what?
The "justice system" doesn't make anyone ruin their life by smoking crack -- it's trying to prevent it!
Nah, it’s not racist. It’s an equal opportunity abuser.
40 FBI agents will try their best to convict the Police Officer
I can use the same argument liberals use to justify black violence: that it is not race-based, but “poverty” based.
That is, instead of comparing the race of people in their treatment by the justice system, compare their social class and wealth.
That is, don’t compare an unemployed black person living in subsidized housing with white, middle class people living in suburbia. Instead compare them with unemployed white people living in subsidized housing.
This changes the headline to “Is the Criminal Justice System Classist?”
While there is no doubt still some dissimilarity, I bet the two groups are a lot closer in their treatment by the criminal justice system.
By that statistic alone half the people in prison should be black.
Yes.
It favors the criminals, Holder's peeps and Obama's sons, and prosecutes the victims, everyone else.
Condescension of criminals as unconstitutional public policy.
The Just-Us System under Eric “The Red” Holder is.
At this point in time, everything is racists.
Goodman writes some interesting columns, but he proves that many conservative writers are as clueless as lib scribblers when it comes to the problems with black Americans. Black Americans create the conditions where they suffer. They make the rotten schools rotten. They commit the crime. No gov. official or KKK member makes them commit crimes in such staggering numbers. They gladly vote for pols who promise them the world and steal from the producers to give them a very small part of the world. In short, blacks create their own problems.
And another thing: if the system is rigged, it’s by Holder’s application of his own brand of ‘racial justice’ for ‘my people.’ He has NO interest in Justice.