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Arturas -> RE: UNMODERATED ZIMMERMAN (7/24/2013 3:01:06 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Kirata
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ORIGINAL: Marc2b
The fact remains that being black makes you more likely to be convicted of a crime.
Is the Criminal Justice System Racist?
In 1997, criminologists Robert Sampson and Janet Lauritsen reviewed the massive literature on charging and sentencing. They concluded that “large racial differences in criminal offending,” not racism, explained why more blacks were in prison proportionately than whites and for longer terms.
A 1987 analysis of Georgia felony convictions, for example, found that blacks frequently received disproportionately lenient punishment.
A 1990 study of 11,000 California cases found that slight racial disparities in sentence length resulted from blacks’ prior records and other legally relevant variables.
A 1994 Justice Department survey of felony cases from the country’s 75 largest urban areas discovered that blacks actually had a lower chance of prosecution following a felony than whites did and that they were less likely to be found guilty at trial. Following conviction, blacks were more likely to receive prison sentences, however—an outcome that reflected the gravity of their offenses as well as their criminal records.
Another criminologist—easily as liberal as Sampson—reached the same conclusion in 1995: “Racial differences in patterns of offending, not racial bias by police and other officials, are the principal reason that such greater proportions of blacks than whites are arrested, prosecuted, convicted and imprisoned,” Michael Tonry wrote in Malign Neglect...
The media’s favorite criminologist, Alfred Blumstein, found in 1993 that blacks were significantly underrepresented in prison for homicide compared with their presence in arrest.
But, of course...
This consensus hasn’t made the slightest dent in the ongoing search for systemic racism.
K.
Great post. But observe it is unheeded. Logic and facts not supporting an individuals view are ignored or at best spun in their direction. Take the trial verdict itself. Ignored. Take the FBI conclusion that George is not a racist. Ignored. Take the fact there is no justification for an investigation by the Justice Department. Ignored. Take George's rescue of that family, he an his body guard, spun into something "staged" for George's benefit.
I've come to the conclusion a large segment of the American population is insane. It is a frightening thought.
One bright light in an otherwise dark conclusion, Justice. Not ignored. Done.
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