Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System
Racial Inequality in the Criminal Justice System – Fewer than 1 out of 100 Americans are imprisoned in the United States. But nearly one fourth of young black men are incarcerated in U.S. state and federal pr…
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legalize, tax, and regulate all drugs, vices, and narcotics, and you starve
organized crime of their operating budget. Create treatment colonies for
addicts. If people want to use drugs, laws won’t stop them. And once
they’re hooked, laws won’t stop them from coming back for more.
the concept of personal responsibility has seemed to disappear from the
culture of this country. America doesn’t have the guts to let people choose
for themselves what they put in their bodies. ?
if only you could take this reasoning and apply it to the rest of your
videos you might understand the problem people have with american
“libertarians”. it’s the same with your idea of economics – you might have
the best of intents in maximise liberty, but structural inequality would
get in the way.?
This is a good response I saw from someone else on facebook about this
video.
“How about a serious look at the problem – and address the breakdown of the
family. If you looked at family background instead of race – I wonder what
percentage of inmates came from single mother homes – we have seriously
devalued the importance of the father in the home.”?
Live in a nicer neighborhood where the cops aren’t out for blood and there
are people around to be a better influence on you and your children. Don’t
say some people can’t afford it… a small town in a rural area is probably
cheaper than some of those inner city places.
Also keep enough money to lawyer up if you have to. Some small crimes
don’t HAVE to = Prison time.
But most importantly don’t do anything to get yourself arrested in the
first place.?
The truth is somewhere in between. Yes, uSA system is broken and did
mistreated African Americans, but also Africans Americans are refusing to
accept they have a lot of issues they need to fix within them selfs. All
that gangsta culture, fatherless families, blaming whites for everything,
dragging down their own if they got successful…btw, can you call ppl from
Egypt,Libya,Morocco..African American? And can you call ppl from
Iraq,Israel Saudi Arabia, India..Asian American??
prisons were built for blacks no one else. If you get caught with crack you
get more time then a person caught with cocaine. Whites more prone to do
cocaine blacks more prone to smoke crack. Blacks get double and triple the
time that whites get for the same crime. Many times whites get probation or
charges get dismissed because they have the resources to obtain a attorney
unlike many blacks. 50 percent of prisoners are black, only 13 percent of
the american population are black. Don’t know why people think white people
don’t commit crimes like they Jesus or something there communities are
heavily policied like black ones are. Traffic stops don’t turn into police
shootouts with whites. The KKK got smart they took off them hoods and put
on suits now there politicians, police, firemen, they work at your Wal Mart
and target they’ll even hire black people to make it seem as though they
aren’t bigots and racist. Prison is big business and black men are the
commodity. You got black men serving 88 yr bids for having a gun and a
couple hundred dollars of crack on them that’s asinine.?
only in the USA black is almost like Ethnic Group. In the rest of the world
black people are members of different nations(more then 50 countries in
Africa). The same way you can be white in the USA but Polish, Greek,
German, Serbian,Italian…btw what this”white” ppl who came here in
100years have to do with the slavery??
Poverty = crime = jail?
If you are black and live in America, the police are more prone to racially
profile you and imprison you for even the most trivial of things. Whites
get away with a lot of shit even the most heinous crimes are often given
less jail time than the ones committed by blacks. ?
If bigotry puts people in jail, why are there so few Asians and Jews in
prison??
The greatest disparity in prison population is not based on race. It is
based on gender.
Women get a pass at every stage of the criminal justice process and if they
manage to get to a point where they are convicted and sentenced they will
receive a fraction of the time that a man who committed the same crime and
with the same criminal background.?
You want to know what you can do about racial inequality in the Criminal
Justice System. Get off your butt and volunteer in your community. And i
dont just mean black people. I mean white people too. The system isnt
racist. Humans are lazy. If you have a rich white boy who has done drugs
but has the support network available through the stay at home parents,
grandparents, ect to be able to make the judge confident that the problem
can be handled with out prison time. That the hours of community service,
parole, ect will be adhered to why should his life be thrown down the
spiral going to prison leads to. We can fix this. We can keep these young
black boys out of prison by Volunteering with Big Brothers and Big Sisters
of America and other similar avenues. becoming counselors. family friends.
taking these children and families and single mothers under our wings. give
these families with budding trouble makers the support system they need to
help these young kids get their lives back on track. The problem may have
started out of racism but that is no longer the problem.
Minorities are so quick to scream discrimination. Stop. please stop. you
have done it for so long over so much that those who can do the most to
help you are tired of it and want nothing to do with you. Stop it please.
and those of you who are more concerned with watching the Living Dead every
week. Get off your but. stop wasting time infront of the TV get out in your
community and help. Please just help. Only in America could the American
dream have gone to the point where we are lazy.?
Go look at the national crime victimization survey. If you freed everyone
incarcerated for drug crimes there would be a lot fewer people in prison,
but the racial mix would hardly budge. Ultimately african americans and to
a lesser extent hispanic americans commit crimes, both drug and violent, at
a greater rate than whites or asians. That’s why they’re in prison more.?
I don’t understand your argument in this video. You say that minorities are
over represented in prisons because of “color blind” laws, and give an
example of minorities benefiting from the drug trade over that of whites.
That seems like an economic problem more than a race problem. It seems like
what you’re saying is whites are immune to the temptation to make money by
breaking the law, or maybe just have quotas for prisons, for every 1
minority locked up you must lock up a white person. That argument makes no
sense.
Think of it this way, if minorities could benefit from being hired as a
hitman, which any poor person could no matter their race, would it be ok to
just turn a blind eye to murder because blacks are over represented? Would
you make the same defense, they had to because they were poor?
The solution is not to take it easy on people that blatantly break the law,
but rather fix the economic problem that those poor communities face, no
matter their race.
I believe that the start is to fix the home, morality has completely been
disregarded, and single parent homes are at an all time high. Once a mother
and father are part of the home it dramatically changes the odds for their
children to have higher grades in school, go on to college and obtain a
good future, but it starts with a return to morals.
You cannot praise those that promote all forms of immorality and violence
and expect a generation with successful values.?
People don’t get into jail because of their skin color, they get into jail
because of what choices they make.?
I love how they’ve hidden the top voted comments on this video, SURE IS
LIBERTY IN HERE.?
Lets be brutally honest here. Young black males are more likely to commit
crimes than young white males. That is the case in every part of the world.?
I love how when the accusations of racism come, the empiricism we saw at
the beginning somehow drifts away… Probably because there is 0 proof of
this, and this is a very disappointing video?
I find it amazing that most of these learn liberty videos get an
over-whelming thumbs up, until they teach something that is not something
most (whites) want to hear. The fact that black people are unequally and
unfairly treated by the nature of the system itself and there is little
political will to change it. Ron Paul also was an advocate for minorities,
and blacks in particular, but he was marginalized by many including the
very people of whom he was an advocate.?
I agree that there is inequality in the criminal justice system but can
someone tell me “where did the host get his data for these statistics?”?
Makes you think…?