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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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Confusing. So, are you saying that we should only arrest proportionate to the amount of color in a populated area? Or, are you suggesting that white criminals are given more breaks than black criminals? I apologize for not seeing how someone can accuse racial bias based on actual and existing crimes committed by anyone, based solely on the quantity of color incarcerated. By that reasoning, since there is approximately 51% female population in the U.S. there should be equal amount of females incarcerated. But, there is only about 10% females in prison. That should indicate that law enforcement is sexually biased against males, right? Yes, once again I am being facetious. But, the argument that in today's law enforcement that there is overwhelming racism in upholding the law, is ludicrous in my opinion.