Blues Man
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Hello, Blues Man.I posted a link to the study by the US Sentencing Commission already.And you are ignoring the fact that if a Black man was arrested and tried for some crime and a White person was not arrested for that very same crime that your assumption that Blacks commit more crimes is flawed.
Hello, Blues Man.
With all due respect, please help educate me.
Can you provide a reliable study indicating it's a FACT police are arresting African Americans citizens for committing offenses or crimes...
...and they are NOT arresting Euro American citizens for committing the same offenses or crimes.
Peace.
and how about this for a little proof
Whites and Blacks use marijuana at about the same rates yet there are almost 4 times more blacks arrested for marijuana charges than whites.
so it seems that the police do arrest more Blacks than Whites for crimes involving marijuana. Is it too much of a stretch to think that cops arrest more blacks than whites for other crimes as well?
The main reason for the disparity, possibly, is attitude.
In my experience, most citizens of Euro descent defer to police authority, while a significant population of African American citizens tend to have poor attitudes towards police, causing cops to make an arrest instead of using discretion.
In other words, most white folks keep their mouth shut and don't antagonize cops or act stupid when detained for committing minor violations, such as possessing small amounts of marijuana or burning marijuana in public.
My question is, how many marijuana arrests resulted with a suspect being handcuffed and processed through the system, as opposed to being issued a criminal court citation returnable at a future date, before being freed to resume their business?
Blues Man, besides possessing marijuana, what other offenses or crimes are African-American citizens arrested for that Euro citizens are not arrested for?
Peace.
There is no evidence that attitude is responsible for harsher prison terms.
If that is the case then we need concrete sentencing guidelines so that these arbitrary and subjective beliefs and attitudes do not sully our justice system.
And I really am not going to research every single crime and compare Black and White arrest frequency but if you want to be my guest.
The reality is that increased police presence in poorer minority neighborhoods results in minorities having more interactions than people in affluent predominantly white neighborhoods. The increased number of interactions result in more arrests.
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