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Originally Posted by VillageLiberal
It's a good thing that blacks are in law enforcement, but yet people of color somehow out number white people in prison. There's an old saying "To someone with a hammer everything looks like a nail" , we've allowed black people and people of color to become the nail for law enforcement and that needs to change. When police officers need to fill their quota for the week the easiest place is to head to the black neighborhood. In either neighborhood you'll find someone driving drunk, riding with their high beams on, loitering, jay walking. But going to the black neighborhood is much easier than going shaking down some white kids in an affluent neighborhood, less pushback from affluent whites, and because whites have been hypnotized to believe that blacks are inferior, inclined to criminal behavior, etc... ,probably from watching COPS and Live PD, we argue that it ok.
In 2017, blacks represented 12% of the U.S. adult population but 33% of the sentenced prison population. Whites accounted for 64% of adults but 30% of prisoners. And while Hispanics represented 16% of the adult population, they accounted for 23% of inmates.
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I do not know what the facts regarding the context of those stats are, and I am not sure anyone really does. IF there truly is a racial bias in arrests/convictions/sentencing, it should be addressed. I am not ruling out that there is bias, but stats on percentages do not necessarily mean bias. However, are you suggesting that we should make sure that our prison population is set up to match the population, regardless of the ratios of crime commission? It SEEMS like when objective rules are made for sentencing, they are criticized because they would affect persons of color more harshly. But the rules should be set up independently, rationally and based on the impacts of the crime to society etc, then just applied blindly, and let the numbers fall where they may.