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2) "black" crime rates normalize when you take into account poverty and other factors. It's not skin color so much as being poor, stupid and with little or no parental guidance that leads a kid to jail.
Have you seen any of the statistical studies on this topic?
The real question is: Why are blacks/the poor/minorities arrested, charged and prosecuted at much higher rates than middle income whites for the exact same crimes?
I had a white friend in high school who would shoplift all of the time. She never got caught. And yet, although I have never shoplifted, shop owners would follow me around in their stores and watch me like a hawk.
I experienced something similar. I got followed around a bookstore. No one else was getting followed, just me. I was the only Black person in the store that day, and I was the one getting followed. What other conclusion could I come to other than because I'm Black, I'm not trusted and would be treated like a suspect. I left that bookstore, and never returned. I felt like if they would treat me like a criminal, they will get none of my money, period.
Many times the police will invent crimes in predominantly non white areas. As I said before, policing is about revenue generation, not protection. If you call the cops and are black lately, odds are you'll end up dead (Jonathan Ferrell, Jack Robertson) are just the latest examples of that in the past month.
This is one of the reasons why I do not understand why so many blacks are against gun ownership. Defend yourself, don't rely on the cops, because when they get there, at least lately they'll end up murdering you.
if u call the cops and your black odds are you will end up dead? that is the most idiotic thing i've ever read here.
Two. The police stop blacks and Latinos at rates that are much higher than whites. In New York City, where people of color make up about half of the population, 80% of the NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos. When whites were stopped, only 8% were frisked. When blacks and Latinos are stopped 85% were frisked according to information provided by the NYPD. The same is true most other places as well. In a California study, the ACLU found blacks are three times more likely to be stopped than whites.
Three. Since 1970, drug arrests have skyrocketed rising from 320,000 to close to 1.6 million according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice.
African Americans are arrested for drug offenses at rates 2 to 11 times higher than the rate for whites - according to a May 2009 report on disparity in drug arrests by Human Rights Watch.
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you're calling him a bad person because he was a cop? what's wrong with u? maybe he was one of the good cops like the majority of them?
Read my first post in this thread. It was based on his first post. My beef is with law enforcement as a whole since it is an extension of the way our government uses force to get what it wants as it pertains to drug use. May not have been clear the way we went after each other.
Adults should not be bothered unless someones rights are being violated. At the least non violent drug users shouldn't serve any prison time. Getting children involved is a completely different story imo.
It's a shame the OP started this silly thread when he could have started one about the cops in Philly. He would have had a better argument.
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